 We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly...  The Living Age - Sayfa 3001905Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 sayfa
...by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord Bacon. STEADINESS OF TROUBLE AND SORROW. When a man recounts the various scenes and appearances... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 sayfa
...the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, Bust fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover Tice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the " Essays" that Bacon is best known to... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1857 - 424 sayfa
...more they are chafd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Essays: '' Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Of Adversity. Our author in The Duchess of Malfi has— "Man, like to cassia, is prov'd best, being... | |
 | 1857 - 240 sayfa
...of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord Bacon. THE PLEASURE OF VIRTUE. VIRTUE is not only seen to be right — it is felt to be delicious.... | |
 | 1857 - 584 sayfa
...the heart by the pleasure of the eve. 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.* The five years of shame, poverty, and sickness, which followed Bacon's disgrace, are the brightest... | |
 | 1857 - 372 sayfa
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. 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. THORNS AND SNAKES. WHAT a thorny path is human life! How is it strewed with snares, gins, and traps,... | |
 | 1857 - 654 sayfa
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."f The five years of shame, poverty, and sickness, which followed Bacon's disgrace, are the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sayfa
...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed3 or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ANNOTATIONS. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the character of TRIALS, and others of DISCIPLINE.... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 sayfa
...of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue." The phenomenon which Mr. Macaulay remarks upon is so peculiar,... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 640 sayfa
...he might never have known had his career been one of unmixed prosperity. Virtue, we are assured, " is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." This was the case with Mr. Lawrence, the most actively benevolent portion of whose life was that which... | |
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