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" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks 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... "
The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 17
by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages
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The Young Man's Sunday Book: A Practical Exhibition of Doctrines, Duties ...

1835 - 334 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not' without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We sec in needle-works and embroideries it is niore pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn...
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. 108 HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. II 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 65

1837 - 608 pages
...Holy Ghost bath-laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see inneedle-worksand embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,...
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Vignaud Pamphlets: Francis Bacon

1837 - 398 pages
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is nol without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 398 pages
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work...
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Supplement to the Courant, Volumes 20-23

1855 - 676 pages
...Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the affiiclious of Job than the felicities of Solomon, — Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but...
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