 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 332 pages
...it!" said Clarence, as he flung himself beside the body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than mpt From the narrative of Herodotus, it should seem that they still looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pages
...the following sentences, viz.: — * Longfellow's "Hyperion." " Virtue is like precious odours, mottt fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, hut adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacons JSssay," Of Adversity'-' " The joys of parents... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...wise sayings of Lord Bacon, that, " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are most incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Dr. Cheever draws some very useful and important lessons from the processes of vegetation, as illustrative... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity dotli best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 382 pages
...experience hope." Our great English philosopher, Lord Bacon, remarks, with his usual eloquence and truth, " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed." The dealings of Providence are mysterious only to those who do not take the trouble of reading them... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1854 - 392 pages
...experience hope." Our great English philosopher, Lord Bacon, remarks, with his usual eloquence and truth, " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed." The dealings of Providence are mysterious only to those who do not take the trouble of reading them... | |
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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. 
