 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 880 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion—- it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Prosperity is not without fears and distastes; and «dX versity is not/without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion — it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing lo have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than...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 Jlugmcntii... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. y in war, in science, and in the arts, which, in the...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work, upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work, upon alightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 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...they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth beat discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." BACON. (4) So have I seen a lark rising... | |
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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. 
