 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 upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Bacon's Essays: With Annotations - Page 62by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 588 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF Simulation and 2Di00imulation. DISSIMULATION is but a faint... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...hopes. 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...hopes. 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...hopes. 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...hopes. 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...or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...hopes. 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...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...hopes. 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...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
 | 1821 - 398 pages
...hopes. 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...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
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