 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. I.XIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 190 pages
...holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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;...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad5 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | 1856 - 702 pages
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 pages
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 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 anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a... | |
 | 1857 - 372 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;...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1857 - 632 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
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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... 
