 | T Nixon - 1806 - 176 sidor
...adversity, without dejection, as for demolished temples the very ruins thereof are reverenced and adored. The virtue of prosperity is temperance. The virtue of adversity is fortitude. When we despond under the calamities of life, we reproach ourselves; their sting maybe sharp, but,... | |
 | English examples - 1818 - 298 sidor
...governed by the Verb. 1. Religion is the Foundation and Support of Morality. Anger is a short Madness. 2. The Virtue of Prosperity is Temperance ; the Virtue of Adversity is Fortitude. 3. Liberality is a Virtue, by which a Man, out of his own private Fortune, ransoms Captives, stands... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 sidor
...Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is...temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in moral is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the old Testament, adversity is the... | |
 | 1821 - 416 sidor
...Christian resolution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world." But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitnde, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 sidor
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good."— When we read in his Essay on Adversity, that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 sidor
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good." — When we read in his Essay on Adversity, .that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | 1821 - 398 sidor
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good." — When we read in his Easay on Ad.versity, that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | 1821 - 400 sidor
...half-pence, the pieces are small and the silver is good." — When we read in his Essay on Adversity, that " The virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sidor
...Adversity to the Bea" titudes of the New, VOL. III. " prosperity is temper" ance, the virtue of ad" versity is fortitude, " which in morals is the " more heroical virtue. " Prosperity is the bless" ing of the Old Testa" ment, adversity is the " blessing of the New, c " which are both in "... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 sidor
...Christian reso" lution, that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh " through the waves of the world." But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, he virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the... | |
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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 oi God's favour. 
