Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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 12
by Alwyn Morton (fict.name.) - 1867
Full view - About this book

Pencilled Passages

1857 - 240 pages
...pleasures of the heart by the pleasures 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. THE PLEASURE OF VIRTUE. VIRTUE is not only seen to be right — it is felt to be delicious....
Full view - About this book

The Scottish Christian journal

1857 - 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. THORNS AND SNAKES. WHAT a thorny path is human life! How is it strewed with snares, gins, and traps,...
Full view - About this book

The North British review

1857 - 584 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eve. 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.* The five years of shame, poverty, and sickness, which followed Bacon's disgrace, are the brightest...
Full view - About this book

The North British Review, Volumes 26-27

1857 - 654 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...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."f The five years of shame, poverty, and sickness, which followed Bacon's disgrace, are the...
Full view - About this book

Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed3 or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ANNOTATIONS. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the character of TRIALS, and others of DISCIPLINE....
Full view - About this book

Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ...

William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pages
...the pleasures 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, and adversity doth best discover virtue." The phenomenon which Mr. Macaulay remarks upon is so peculiar,...
Full view - About this book

Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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. OP SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ' ; for...
Full view - About this book

Lives of American Merchants, Volume 2

Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 648 pages
...had his career been one of unmixed prosperity. Virtue, we are assured, " is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." This was the case with Mr. Lawrence, the most actively benevolent portion of whose life was that which...
Full view - About this book

Lives of American Merchants, Volume 2

Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 614 pages
...had his career been one of unmixed prosperity. Virtue, we are assured, " is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." This was the case with Mr. Lawrence, the most actively benevolent portion of whose life was that which...
Full view - About this book

Lives of American Merchants, Volume 2

Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 640 pages
...had his career been one of unmixed prosperity. Virtue, we are assured, " is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." This was the case with Mr. Lawrence, the most actively benevolent portion of whose life was that which...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF