 | 1846 - 308 pages
...needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively woik upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...needle-works and emhroideries 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 hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than ܀ 0 where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bnt adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." What are these images of, viz., the "lively work;" the "sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...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 upon a lightsome...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...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...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, "most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed;...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth, — but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth,... | |
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 
