| 1852 - 638 páginas
...over the Old World and the New, and their fame will last as long as the language of that race endures. THE virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. THE silence of a person who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. THEEE is always more... | |
| Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 páginas
...virtues, and to •Vol. Hi., 104. t See ante, p. 26. J Bacon, in his Essay on Adversity, says, — The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like... | |
| 1846 - 308 páginas
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean. The virtue of Prosperity is Temperance; the virtue...of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if yon listen to David's harp, you shall hear ai many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...richer and softer. The following passage, fi^t published in 1625, will show the extent of the change: ilton, it is said, inherited what his predecessors...enlightened age; he received a finished education ; and evidences of God's favour. Vet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
| General principles - 1847 - 132 páginas
...security of a God." * THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour."* " If he * Bacon's Essays. be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shews that his heart... | |
| 1847 - 380 páginas
...security of a God."* THE is definite in meaning, and applies equally to the singular and plural, as, " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor."* " If he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...tumult make them not audible all things dissolve Into anarchy and confusion. [Prosperity and Adversity.] eas Of troublous world, nor lost in slothful ease : Pleae'd and full blest he Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 páginas
...Adversity, on which he had deeply reflected, before the edition of 1625, when it first appeared, he says : " The virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue...adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroicaJ virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the... | |
| William John Dawson - 1848 - 1186 páginas
...the beauties of the New ; which are in reality greater, and carry a clearer reveliition of the Divine favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you will find more lamentable airs, than triumphant ones : and the pencil of the Holy Spirit hath more... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 páginas
...henceforth Лл-1Ыа. IDE Two BLESSINGS. — Prosperity is ™ blearing of the Old Testament; M'eraUy ij the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, yon will hear... | |
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