 | 1855 - 676 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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 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...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... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 pages
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - 300 pages
...$cCHAPTER XV (funiuiG tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 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." It is by the "Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Jlugmentis... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 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." It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 pages
...sorrows and sufferings, than be kept in ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " Certainly, Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...discover Vice, but adversity doth best discover Virtue." Lord BACON. THE few months that had preceded her father and sister's visit to town, had been a time... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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. NOTICES OF BOOKS. MEANS AND ENDS ; OR, SELF-TRAINING. By the Author of Redwood, Home, fyc. THIS book... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 254 pages
...and higher virtue. It was a wise man who said, " Virtue, like a precious odour, is most fragrant when crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." When those we love are in trouble, let us feel that we have a two-fold office, to cheer, and to help... | |
 | 1864 - 704 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...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best disoover virtue. — Sacón. MISSIONARY WORK IN AGRA. THE work of the mission in the city of Agra,... | |
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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. 
