 | 1837 - 608 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see inneedle-worksand embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bul adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. 108 HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. II 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...instant that such degree of sympathy is exceeded, we hurt ourselves and not our adversary. WALTER SCOTT. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. BACON. OH ! what a tmrare m a vatmtm* Wife, Discreet and loving; not one gift on earth .Makes a man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 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...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... | |
 | 1838 - 870 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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...accustomed.—Bacon. 1163. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort 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. perity has shined upon it, then like a snake it presently recovers its former strength and venom.*... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 pages
...few would fix their attention on the glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." . The days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful portion of our lives in the discharge of... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...the human character. Prosperity may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious principle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the head ' Prometheus, or the State of Man:'... | |
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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. 
