 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad5 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasnre of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed/... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 208 pages
...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...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | 1856 - 702 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1856 - 708 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome »round. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the fye. Certainly virtue... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - Christian life - 1856 - 190 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 1 Ut... | |
 | 1857 - 372 pages
...comforts and hopes. We see, in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
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We see in needle-works 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.... 
