 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
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 pages
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...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... | |
 | Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...Hardhead's health in a glass of purl. CHAPTER XXVI. EDITH AND CLARA. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. THE reader will remember the night when the two burglars and the little boy effected their entrance into... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most Sd l Y f % g /&p lH EȂ 1 K} YU a d Ϯ e_=.* K e M[ yR f vp q jO C*n2C { H &|tgk discoe ver virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* -^ ;• DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
 | 1850 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 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. — Lord Bacon. HE who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point ; and where... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 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...but adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 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*. VI. OP SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. < . Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
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