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
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - Liczba stron: 712
...by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, moet fragrant where they arc : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Fritndfkip.] It bo [Fritndfkip.] It bod been hard for him that spake it, to bare put more truth and untruth together in... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - Liczba stron: 712
...by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Priendikip.] It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
| 1849 - Liczba stron: 364
...climbs the rugged heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, "most fragrant when they are incensed...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth, — but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - Liczba stron: 446
...climbs the rugged heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, " most fragrant when they are incensed...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth ; but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - Liczba stron: 708
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where as, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms....thy spear against the Muse's bower: The great Emathi [Friendship.] It bad been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - Liczba stron: 372
...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. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it asketh... | |
| Waldo Howard - 1850 - Liczba stron: 310
...by the whole company, who drank Hardhead's health in a glass of purl. CHAPTER XXVI. EDITH AND CLARA. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. THE reader will remember the night when the two burglars and the little boy effected their... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Liczba stron: 338
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - Liczba stron: 590
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, m you deal with some Other discourse-, that he be not too much 3£ake to discoe ver virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* -^ ;• DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
| 1850 - Liczba stron: 632
...tlie pleasures 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 virtue. — Lord Bacon,. THE CHRISTIAN'S HUSBANDRY. THAT the mind of man may be worthily employed and taken... | |
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