 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopee. in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but...pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire moet fragrant where they arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odoure, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...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... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...distastes ; and adversity ie not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it ie more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of .the eye.... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity is not without comforts and hopes. 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort« and hopes. Л\*е ister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or...blown-roses wash M in dew, Fill'd her with tliee where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 446 pages
...heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, " most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth ; but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | 1849 - 364 pages
...heights of tribulation with delight. Lord Bacon compared virtue, or true manliness, to precious odors, "most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Here is a high truth, — but Jesus came, in the circumstances of his birth, in the toils and deprivations... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...I'roimcrity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversitv is not without comforts and hopes. s C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
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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. 
