 | 1850 - 632 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 ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by tlie pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours— most... | |
 | 1850 - 790 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 ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 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. — Lord Bacon. HE who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point ; and where... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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... | |
 | 1851 - 626 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 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. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 880 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion—- it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion — it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
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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. 
