 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pàgines
...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 morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pàgines
...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 morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pàgines
...harp, you will find more lamentable airs than triumphant ones." Lard Bacon. " But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | 1826 - 370 pàgines
...last finishing grace to the representation of the tragedy. He probably thought with our poet, that " Honour and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part, there all the honour lies." EURIPIDES. Euripides, the contemporary and rival of Sophocles, had originally devoted himself to the... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pàgines
...often gives us the lightning even without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning. The virtue of prosperity, is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude ; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity... | |
 | Charles Brooks - 1828 - 424 pàgines
...will meet as brethren ; where all will serve one master, even him, whose service is perfect freedom. Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part, there all the honour lies. FEBRUARY 4. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice 1 — Unto yau, 0 men, I call... | |
 | 734 pàgines
...thought, too bad. However, as there was no remedy, I comforted myself with a couplet from Pope — Honour and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part — there all the honour lies. My ambition was sot stifled, it was merely directed into another channel. It was now my object to see... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pàgines
...190 Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience cleor, Because he wants a thousand pounds a-year. Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. , Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The... | |
 | William Jay - 1829 - 592 pàgines
...faithfully and actively discharging the duties of it. Never mind how humble your occupations may be — " Honour, and shame, from no condition rise : " Act well your part — there all the honour lies." Be attentive and diligent, and you are useful and respectable. They ought to blush, who do nothing,... | |
 | John Angell James - 1830 - 236 pàgines
...doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free." — EPHESIANS, vi. 5 — 8. " Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part — there all the honour lies." GOD is the Creator of all things, and the Disposer of all events : he is, therefore, the Author of... | |
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The virtue of Prosperity is temperance, the virtue of Adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New; which carrieth the greater benediction, and... 
