 | 460 pages
...such a blessing ! Newcattle-upon- Tyne. THE BLUE-STOCKING. (A TALE.) BY MISS ANNA MARIA 8ARGKANT. " Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part — there all the honour lies." POPE. " Here is a letter for you from Cambridge, Imogen, my love," ciied Mr. Bentley, as lie cut the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...that sailcth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speakin 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... | |
 | Thomas Lewis - 1839 - 404 pages
...his obligations best in the sight of God and man, is the most honourable and happiest among men. " Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part — there all the honour lies. ' ' To assist you in the knowledge and fulfilment of your various obligations is my present object.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...human-kind, Whose life is healthful, and whose conscience clear, Because he wants a thousand pounds a year. kno`> / Fortune in men has some small difference made, One Haunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; Tlie cobbler... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...all these can make no man happy without Virtue. Instanced in each of them [P]. 185 ff. 1. RICHES [P]. Honour and shame from no Condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies. Fortune in Men has some small difference made, 195 One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean.1 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... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 816 pages
...a smile, — if that day should never come, the maxim of the poet is not more trite than true — " Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part : there all the honour lies." This world, my boy, is but a fight at best ; and though the battle go against us, yet he 1819 FROM... | |
 | 1903 - 960 pages
...most remarkable historians of the nineteenth century ? 5. Illustrate Bacon's meaning when he says that the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity is fortitude. 6. " As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it." What are they ? 7.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...readily from error than from confusion. 765 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectatlon. 766 pure. which in morals is the heroical virtue. 767 The World What is it then to have or have no wife, But... | |
 | Ernst Faber - 2000 - 320 pages
...the eye to colour, of the ear to sound, of the nose to odours, of the four limbs to rest, is nature 1 "Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honour lies." (being), but is destined ; the superior man does not call it essential nature. The relation of love... | |
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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... 
