 | 1909 - 378 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 odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover* vice, but... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - 1864 - 112 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...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Bacon's Essays. Amid the thorns and"briars of this working-day world "' there is nothing... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 870 pages
...the Creator and the reliefe of mans estate.' Orageinthis: 'Wf see in Needle'works and Embroyderies, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - 1974 - 300 pages
...regarded as a welcome test of fortitude and divine mercy: Certainly virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. [VI, 386] Bacon, like many of his contemporaries, collected in a notebook apophthegms which struck... | |
 | Philip Edwards - 1997 - 244 pages
...pleasing, to have a Lively Worke, upon a Sad and Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therefore, of the Pleasure...the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity doth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed9 or crushed:10 for Prosperity doth best discover* vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 6. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION Dissimulation* is but a faint kind of policy" or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...Solemne Ground; then to have a Darke and Melancholy Worke, upon a Lightsome Ground: Judge therfore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed: For Prosperity 40... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;0 and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work0 upon a sad0 and solemn ground,0 than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome0 ground:... | |
 | John Carrington - 2003 - 344 pages
...touched by a worldly-wise cynicism, which others would call realism. There are indeed such moments: 'Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed' ['Of Adversity']; 'For he that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's'... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 716 pages
...Holy Spirit hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...upon a lightsome ground; judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors — most... | |
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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. 
