 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar; a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity doth bes.t discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than l my heart new open'd. O, how wretched Is that poor...favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...Hardhead's health in a glass of purl. CHAPTER XXVI. EDITH AND CLARA. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. THE reader will remember the night when the two burglars and the little boy effected their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than good tilings, such as is the wheat. X. OF LOVE.« ! THE stage is more beholding to l pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
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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. 
