 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...(after the manner of the Stoicks ; ) That the good Things which belong to PROSPERITY are to be Wijhed\ but the good Things that belong to ADVERSITY are to be Admired. Certainly, if that be rightly termed a Miracle, which is above Nature, the greateft Miracles appear... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...IT was an 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...that belong to adversity are to be admired: " Bona rertim secundarum optabilia, adversarurn mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature,... | |
 | Proverbs - 1814 - 568 pages
...Seneca, that " bona rerum secundarum sunt optabilia, adversarum mirabilia," the good things which belong to prosperity, are to be wished ; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Queen Catherine, who was repudiated by Henry the Eighth, used to say, that " she would not willingly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over C2 nature, they appear most in Adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his, than the other, (much too... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...1.T 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...mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over C2 nature, they appear most in Adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his, than the other, (much too... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...IT was an 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...belong to adversity are to be admired : Bona rerum tecundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabilla. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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...belong to adversity are to be admired : " Bona rerum secundarmn optabilia, adversarum mirabilia." Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...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...the other ('much too high for a heathen), " It is trne greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God :" — " Vere magnum... | |
 | John Timbs - Dorking (England) - 1823 - 330 pages
...would work on our sensibilities with redoubled effect. Seneca says that " the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired ;" and, certainly no maxim was ever more fully verified in the scenes and events of passing life. We... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...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 that belong to adversity are to be admired: Botia rerum secundarum optabilia, adversarum mirabllia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature,... | |
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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 that belong to adversity are to be admired. 
