 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...they unfortunate. V. OF ADVERSITY. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are...admired: Bona rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabiliaf Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...mischievous, and their end is unfortunate. 9. It was a high speech of Seneca, after the manner of the Stoics, imity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a 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.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...steps higher. ESSAY V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the ' good things which belong to prosperity...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),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...perire sua." V.— OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca, (after the manner of the Stoics,) that " the good things which belong to prosperity...rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilia.") l Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they1 appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 pages
...both. VOL. VI. CC V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are...are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia ; adoersarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...principle. ESSAY V. OF ADVEESITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the 'good things which belong to prosperity are...adversity are to be admired' — ' Bona rerum secundarum optahilia, adversarum mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1857 - 70 pages
...plats of fruitful ground, where thou mayest warble, eat, and dwell. It was a high speech of Seneca, " That the good things which belong to prosperity are...wished, but the good things that belong to adversity to be admired." Let the day perish wherein I was born. How much less in them that dwell in houses of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...self-distrust. ESSAY V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics) , that the ' good things which belong to prosperity...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),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to lte wished; but the good things that belong to adversity...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),... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...both. VOL. VI. С С V. OF ADVERSITY. IT was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are...things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bona rerun secundarum ojitabilia ; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature,... | |
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