 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
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." . The days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful portion of our lives in the discharge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the head ' Prometheus, or the State of Man:'... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...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... | |
 | 1855 - 676 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. "SUBJECTS." — A bill in the Maine legislature to surrender the bodies of paupers... | |
 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 pages
...ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " Certainly, Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity...discover Vice, but adversity doth best discover Virtue." Lord BACON. THE few months that had preceded her father and sister's visit to town, had been a time... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 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." It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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. NOTICES OF BOOKS. MEANS AND ENDS ; OR, SELF-TRAINING. By the Author of Redwood, Home, fyc. THIS book... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 254 pages
...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 - 336 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...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 - 680 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." However admirable these passages may be, a celebrated writer remarks, that Bacon's greatest performance... | |
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