 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  The British Prose Writers - Página 201821Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 páginas
...have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like...where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity dotli best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, [Friendship,] It had been hard for... | |
 | 1853 - 618 páginas
...wise sayings of Lord Bacon, that, " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are most incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Dr. Cheever draws some very useful and important lessons from the processes of vegetation, as illustrative... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 páginas
...perdition." It was the saying of Lord Bacon, " certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Many are now in hell, cursing their success in business and their worldly prosperity, because by it... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - 1855 - 468 páginas
...melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Indeed, to carry out this thought to its boldest conclusions, is sin and imperfection in this world... | |
 | Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control - 1868 - 230 páginas
...nursed in hot unnatural air. It has flourished best in an ungenial soil, and under a bleak sky ; ' for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is not for those who believe in a divine original Christianity, no more than for those who think... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - 488 páginas
...tears. CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precions odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed i for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Bacou. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | 1856 - 374 páginas
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — iMrd Bacon. LXX. If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasnre of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ANNOTATIONS. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the character of TRIALS, and others of DISCIPLINE.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 páginas
...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like...they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth hest discover vice, hut adversity doth hest discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and hrothers... | |
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