 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 upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly...  The Living Age - Strona 3001905Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - Liczba stron: 1002
...to conceal the emotion which overpowered them. CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord BACON'S Essuyt. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans expected that the controul which the unfortunate Countess... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - Liczba stron: 240
...approaching ; you will not forget your promises !" CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours — most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but advercity doth best discover virtue. Loiui BACON'S Essays. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans had expected that... | |
 | Plebeians - 1836 - Liczba stron: 858
...by a sense of private wrong. CHAPTER IV. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...vice — but adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. SIR John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were in course of rebuilding with all possible dispatch;... | |
 | Author of Old maids - 1836 - Liczba stron: 210
...a sense of private wrong. CHAPTER XXIII. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice — bnt adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. Sir John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - Liczba stron: 272
...is exceeded, we hurt ourselves and not our adversary. WALTER SCOTT. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. BACON. OH ! what a tmrare m a vatmtm* Wife, Discreet and loving; not one gift on earth .Makes a man's... | |
 | 1837 - Liczba stron: 608
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bul adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude.... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - Liczba stron: 522
...character. Prosperty may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious principle,... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 822
...lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the 'Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Aovum Organum and the De Jlugmentis... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - Liczba stron: 898
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, j VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - Liczba stron: 360
...hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,... | |
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