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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. "
The Young Man's Sunday Book: A Practical Exhibition of Doctrines, Duties ... - Page 212
1835 - 320 pages
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The cynosure, select passages from the most distinguished writers [ed. by ...

Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...instant that such degree of sympathy is exceeded, we hurt ourselves and not our adversary. WALTER SCOTT. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. BACON. OH ! what a tmrare m a vatmtm* Wife, Discreet and loving; not one gift on earth .Makes a man's...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...and adversity 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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, j VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for...
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...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...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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Gems of genius; or, Words of the wise: a collection of the most pointed ...

Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...accustomed.—Bacon. 1163. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The ЛГоккт Organum and the...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. perity has shined upon it, then like a snake it presently recovers its former strength and venom.*...
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The Seasons of Life; with an Introduction on the Creation, and Primeval ...

Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...few would fix their attention on the glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." . The days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful portion of our lives in the discharge...
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London Saturday Journal..., Volume 1

1839 - 444 pages
...the human character. Prosperity may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious principle,...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the head ' Prometheus, or the State of Man:'...
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Supplement to the Courant, Volumes 20-23

1855 - 676 pages
...adversity 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...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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