 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | 1824 - 706 pages
...Metastasio. " In bona cur quisqilam tertius ista venit ? " Let us observe Bacon working out the metaphor. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed (he uses the word in an obsolete sense — igne coactum) or crushed. — Eiiayi. The compassionate... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." The essays were immediately translated into French and Italian, and into Latin by some of his friends,... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes : and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talnv'd, and the Alcoran,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. • VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or •wisdom... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Shakrpeare. We see in needleworks and mbnideriei, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solenm ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of... | |
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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. 
