 the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired." ("Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.") Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most...  Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil - Page xxviiiby Francis Bacon - 1868 - 388 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...end they unfortunate. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics,) that the good things which belong to prosperity are...Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, (much too high for a heathen,)... | |
 | Mrs. O'Neill - 1835 - 502 pages
...cheering a lustre over that truth, usually so dark, even in ita grandeur : — " The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good...things that belong to adversity are to be admired." CHAPTER IV. LOST BEAUTÏ. THE TRIALS OF LADY LESLIE. Claude. And ¡3 it nothing i~ut a dialogue ? Mudy.... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1835 - 404 pages
...cheering a lustre over that truth, usually so dark, even in its grandeur : — " The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good...things that belong to adversity are to be admired." CHAPTER IV. LOST BEAUTÏ. THE TRIALS OF LADY LESLIE. Claude. And is it nothing but a dialogue ? Mudy.... | |
 | 1835 - 334 pages
...of his commandments.1 ADVERSITY. ' IT was a high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics,) that "the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things belonging to adversity are to be admired:" "Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia."... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1835 - 220 pages
...than pleasures ripen the fruits of righteousness. " The good things which belong to prosperity may be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired,''' said Seneca: or to use the clearer language of Bacon, that greater than Seneca, " the virtue of prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...they unfortunate. V V. OF ADVERSITY. It was an high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity are...belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum sccundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...mischievous, and their end is unfortunate. 9. It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, that the good things which belong to prosperity, are to be wished ; but the good things which belong to adversity, are to be admired. 10. He that cannot see well, let him go softly. 11. If... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...Antique B.lst.] V.— OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that, " the good things which belong to prosperity...belong to adversity are to be admired." (" Bona rerum secundartrnt optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.")i Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...added in the edition of 1625 : — It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), That the good things which belong to' prosperity are...Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen),... | |
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