 | 1846 - 308 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. SONG FOR AUGUST. BT HARRIETT MAHTINEAU. Beneath this starry arch, Nought resteth or is still ; But... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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 or crushed; for prosperity doth hest discover vice, hut adversity doth hest discover virtue. The Sixth Essay, ' Of Simulation and Dissimulation,'... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, moet fragrant where they arc : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Fritndfkip.] It bo [Fritndfkip.] It bod been hard for him that spake it, to bare put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Priendikip.] It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed :...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...warbling of music ;" (b) Poetry a shadow ; (e) The " lively work upon a sad and solemn ground." (d) "Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." (e) A compassionate heart compared " to the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm."... | |
 | 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;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth, — but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 pages
...heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, " most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth ; but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where as, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms....thy spear against the Muse's bower: The great Emathi [Friendship.] It bad been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it asketh... | |
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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 work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.... 
