We see in needle-works 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.... Alwyn Morton: his school and schoolfellows - Page 12by Alwyn Morton (fict.name.) - 1867Full view - About this book
| 1821 - 416 pages
...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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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." The essays were immediately translated into French and Italian, and into Latin by some of his friends,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talnv'd, and the Alcoran,... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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. LXX. If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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. LXX. If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance... | |
| 1831 - 548 pages
...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are burned or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Lord Bacon. Gelatine.—From the bones of meat consumed in the Hospital of St. Louis in Paris,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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... | |
| 1835 - 334 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' OF PRAYER. Ouu prayers should run parallel to promises ; we should ask nothing of God but what we have... | |
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