| Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1861 - 390 ÆäÀÌÁö
...persecute you for my sake, rejoice and be exceeding glad." So clear is it, as one well says, that, " though prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New." The Jew regarded temporal losses as tokens of the displeasure of God ; and not a few Christians commit... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 ÆäÀÌÁö
...and softer. The following passage, first published in 1625, will show the extent of the ehange : " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, whieh earrieth the greater benedietion and the elearer evidenees of God's favour. Yet, even in the... | |
| 1862 - 978 ÆäÀÌÁö
...done well to reprint them for readers in this country. We quote two of the thoughts (p. 272) : — " Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth a greater benediction and a clearer revelation of God's favour." Again, p 353, he says on Scripture,... | |
| 1862 - 838 ÆäÀÌÁö
...consciences." " In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior." "Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New." "Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy." "Whosoever estcemeth too much of amorous affection quittcth... | |
| 1862 - 364 ÆäÀÌÁö
...too ; to be bereft is the lot of all ; to enjoy is not the lot of many. — &. Gregory of Nazianzum. 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 carri.-ih... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 ÆäÀÌÁö
...41. \Ve believe that the explanation of his improvement is to be found in the Essay on Adversity. ' Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth ttie greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ÆäÀÌÁö
...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...the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation oi God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many... | |
| William Brighty Rands - 1864 - 384 ÆäÀÌÁö
...language, and how consistent he may make his scheme in vulgar eyes. III. Prosperity, says Lord Bacon, is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New. Mormonism recognises this, and gains an immense advantage in doing so. It is the Old Testament which,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 ÆäÀÌÁö
...greatness t — TROILUS ANn CKESEIDA. •ee Bacon's beautiful " Essay on Adversity," where he says— "But to speak In a mean, the virtue of prosperity...adversity Is fortitude, which In morals Is the more herolcal virtue. Prosperity Is the blessing of the Old Teiaament, Adversity Is the blessing of the... | |
| Henry Dunn - 1865 - 168 ÆäÀÌÁö
...threatening of the one are temporal; of the other, eternal: that, as Lord Bacon has expressed it, " prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New." But this view of things cannot be sustained ; and it is not a little singular that so acute a reasoner... | |
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