 ... 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 upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the...  London Saturday Journal... - Página 231839Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...upon a lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best discover virtue. perity has shined... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 páginas
...few would fix their attention on the glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " 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." . The days of our... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's treatise... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays... | |
 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 páginas
...sorrows and sufferings, than be kept in ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " 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." Lord BACON. THE few... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the "Essays"... | |
 | 1864 - 704 páginas
...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best disoover virtue. — Sacón. MISSIONARY... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 páginas
...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure 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, but adversity doth best discover virtue. The Sixth Essay,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. ing, then, can be ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the "... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...warbling of music ;" (b) Poetry a shadow ; (e) The " lively work upon a sad and solemn ground." (d) "Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." (e) A compassionate heart compared " to the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm."... | |
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