 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 σελίδες
...digested.' We do not believe that Thncydides himself has anywhere compressed so much thought into •o small a space. In the additions which Bacon afterwards...which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall... | |
 | Russell Lant Carpenter - 1860 - 176 σελίδες
...incentive to filial obedience, seem to me to speak as heathens or Jews, rather than as Christians. " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which canieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour." (Bacon's Essays, v.)... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 σελίδες
...fortitude, which in morals Is the more herolcnl virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testami-nt, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the rlearei revelation of God's favor. Yet even In the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 σελίδες
...prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's 1 Sen. Ad LucU. 66. ' Sen. Ad Lucil. 53. ' Poesy. Poetry— ' Musick and Poesy... | |
 | 1909 - 378 σελίδες
...prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity...carrieth the 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... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 σελίδες
...And, with an accent tun'd in selfsame key, Returns to chiding fortune.—Troilus and Cressida, i. 3. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity...carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall... | |
 | 1878 - 1178 σελίδες
...enemy or unfriendly ally. ' Prosperity,' says &con, 'was the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer Delation of God's favour.' The experience of the Order of St. John affords abundant confirmation of... | |
 | Sean P. Kealy - 1987 - 262 σελίδες
...prescriptions for happiness, than in any other sayings. The provocative statement of Francis Bacon that, while prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament adversity is the blessing of the New, is a convenient summary of the newness of Jesus' approach and his radical demands. In his classical... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 σελίδες
...is the denomination of the New. Benjamin Whichcote (1609-1683) Provost of King's College, Cambridge Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist It gives me a deep, comforting sense that "things... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1990 - 356 σελίδες
..."He had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not." Luke 7:13 Bacon writing on adversity says, "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament;...the New, which carrieth the greater benediction." But both sections of Scripture reveal a mixture of prosperity and adversity, with promises attached... | |
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 
