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. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as... Essays moral, economical and political - Page 22by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
| J. C. - 1806 - 156 pages
...faint idea how we appropriated the long summer day, and the winter's contracted one. THE SAGE EDNOR. " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as -carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. 17 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 336 pages
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1824 - 342 pages
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.'" * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
| Thomas Bowdler - 1825 - 364 pages
...favor. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.' " * The writer of this Memoir is tempted to add some extracts from an Imitation of the Thirteenth Satire... | |
| Solomon Southwick - Freemasonry - 1827 - 156 pages
...: yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. NOTE IT. The following Proclamation, was issued by the Governor, agreeably to its date, for the discovery... | |
| Christian life - 1827 - 316 pages
...prevent our comprehending, nothing but wilful ertor can hinder us from embracing". — IHiss Mare. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed. The virtue of prosperity is temperance,... | |
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