 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...  The Retrospective Review - Page 1421821Full view - About this book
 | Frederick A. Laing - English literature - 1873 - 253 pages
...I'BOSPEEITT AND ADVERSITY. " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needlework and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Wesleyan Reform Union of Churches - 1874
...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...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground.... | |
 | English literature - 1874
...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...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 512 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 laboured more in describing the afflictions of 30 Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 397 pages
...themselves as if not meant for parts of wholes. In the essay Of Adversity, for example, we read : " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes; " this between a sentence dealing with the predominance of sadness over joy in the Old Testament, and... | |
 | William George Fitz-Gerald - National characteristics, American - 1918 - 425 pages
...implicit law punished in the breach and favoured in the observance. It is true, as Bacon noted, that "the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." But such pencils are gaily edited in this New "World. Even its early Puritanism, as Professor Charming... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922
...ADVERSITY (See also AFFLICTION) 18 It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts. IX. 5. 19 - % z BACON — Of Adversity. 20 And these vicissitudes come best in youth; For when they happen at a riper... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 454 pages
...Shakespeare, writes: "The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. . . . Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. . . . Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 86 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...laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job thun the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - Religion - 1988 - 528 pages
...when He affirmed that He was greater than Solomon. Francis Bacon in his Essay on Adversity says that "The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." If the king had had more afflictions than felicities, he would have ended his career in triumph instead... | |
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