 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 Seiten
...is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude; which in morals3 is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity...the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction,4 and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 Seiten
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 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 Seiten
...Temperance; The Vertue of Adversity, is Fortitude: which 25 in Morals is the more Heroicall Vertue. Prosperity is the Blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity...New; which carrieth the greater Benediction, and the 1 Of Adversitie.] Cl A, Cl B, Ph; essay not in 97a-24 3 an] a CIA, Cl B,Ph 4-6 the good . . . admired.}... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 Seiten
...all this and enforce his own rule, that of charity. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1511) 1 1 Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon, Essays ( 1 625) 12 Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - 2001 - 524 Seiten
...God is more anxious to bestow His blessings on us than we are to receive them. St. Augustine of Hippo Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon The greatest blessing we ever get from God is to know that we are destitute spiritually.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 Seiten
...is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude; which in morals0 is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity...the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction,0 and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen... | |
 | B. G. Lovejoy - 2003 - 296 Seiten
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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 laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. 
