 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - Liczba stron: 770
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 372
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 632
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 584
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eve. Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ;... | |
 | 1857 - Liczba stron: 240
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - Liczba stron: 578
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - Liczba stron: 188
...afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distates, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - Liczba stron: 412
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work upon a lightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - Liczba stron: 190
...comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - Liczba stron: 140
...state and society of man. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Act i. Sc. ii. : Nature never lends 10. ON ADVERSITY : It is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn errand, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome errand. HENRY IV. : Bright metals... | |
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work... 
