 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
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...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... | |
 | Gertrude Eleanor Hollingworth - Literary style - 1924 - 148 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. 72. Then, amidst the hymns and hallelujahs of saints, some one may perhaps be heard offering at high... | |
 | Ralph Philip Boas, Edwin Smith - English literature - 1925 - 490 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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1927 - 348 pages
...; the Virtue of Adversity is Fortitude, which in Morals is the more heroical Virtue. . . Prosper:ty is not without many fears and distastes ; and 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,... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 494 pages
...— OLD TESTAMENT. To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it. — WILLIAM AUSTIN. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. — BACON. Prosperity walks hand in hand with the dealer who gives service. God, give us Peace, not... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 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 - Fiction - 1988 - 532 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers. Saint Augustine (354-430) theologian The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English poet, critic, soldier Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament;... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Popular song in Nineteen Eighty-four, pt. l,ch. 7, and pass/mil 949). See also TREACHERY. THE BIBLE 1 o becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure...that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, FRANCIS BACON (1561- 1 626), English philosopher, essayist. statesman. Essays, "Of Adversity" 11597-1625).... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Adversity," (1597-1 625). 2 The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Fssays, "Of Adversity" (1597-1... | |
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