 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
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...true poetic language. Take this from the essay Of Adversity: — Virtue is like precious odors. Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; For prosperity...discover vice. But adversity doth best discover virtue. Not a word here has been altered from the prose form in which it appears in the original. Then in the... | |
 | 636 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. A WORD TO THE WISE.— Infallible truth informs us that " pure religion and undefiled... | |
 | 1864 - 704 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 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,... | |
 | 1835 - 638 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most soured; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily...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... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...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; for Prosperity...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. SONG FOR AUGUST. BT HARRIETT MARTI NEAU. Beneath this starry arch, Nought restcth or is still; But... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 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. The Sixth Essay, ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation,' was likewise new in 1625. The following are its... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, "most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity...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... | |
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