 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 120 pages
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 | Russell Davies - 2005 - 584 pages
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 | Edwin A. Abbott - 2006 - 284 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 2006 - 708 pages
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 | Elliott M. Simon - 2007 - 622 pages
...173-74, 189. Francis Bacon made a similar argument, that: "The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals...Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New; which carries the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favor." "Essay V: Of Adversity,"... | |
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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 of God's favour. 
