 | 1855 - 676 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...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... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 pages
...needleworks aoid 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 heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the "Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Jlugmentis... | |
 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 pages
...sorrows and sufferings, than be kept in ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " Certainly, Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...discover Vice, but adversity doth best discover Virtue." Lord BACON. THE few months that had preceded her father and sister's visit to town, had been a time... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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. NOTICES OF BOOKS. MEANS AND ENDS ; OR, SELF-TRAINING. By the Author of Redwood, Home, fyc. THIS book... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 254 pages
...and higher virtue. It was a wise man who said, " Virtue, like a precious odour, is most fragrant when crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." When those we love are in trouble, let us feel that we have a two-fold office, to cheer, and to help... | |
 | 1864 - 704 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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best disoover virtue. — Sacón. MISSIONARY WORK IN AGRA. THE work of the mission in the city of Agra,... | |
 | 1835 - 638 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...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtu*. Influence... | |
 | 636 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... | |
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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. 
