 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
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - Liczba stron: 254
...and higher virtue. It was a wise man who said, " Virtue, like a precious odour, is most fragrant when crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." When those we love are in trouble, let us feel that we have a two-fold office, to cheer, and to help... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Liczba stron: 336
...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." However admirable these passages may be, a celebrated writer remarks, that Bacon's greatest performance... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - Liczba stron: 680
...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." However admirable these passages may be, a celebrated writer remarks, that Bacon's greatest performance... | |
 | 1864 - Liczba stron: 704
...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 :...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best disoover virtue. — Sacón. MISSIONARY WORK IN AGRA. THE work of the mission in the city of Agra,... | |
 | Liczba stron: 636
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. A WORD TO THE WISE.— Infallible truth informs us that " pure religion and undefiled... | |
 | 1835 - Liczba stron: 638
...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtu*. Influence of Women. NOT a page in French history, from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth,... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - Liczba stron: 396
...therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. heighten their corruptions. Prosperity and ease upon an unsanctined impure heart, is like the sun-heams... | |
 | 1846 - Liczba stron: 308
...therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed;...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. SONG FOR AUGUST. BT HARRIETT MAHTINEAU. Beneath this starry arch, Nought resteth or is still ; But... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - Liczba stron: 782
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, s are soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are...emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can af It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Nomim Organunt and the De JSu%mentit... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - Liczba stron: 730
...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. The Sixth Essay, ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation,' was likewise new in 1625. The following are its... | |
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