 | 1838 - 870 Seiten
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...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... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...accustomed.—Bacon. 1163. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. perity has shined upon it, then like a snake it presently... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 Seiten
...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...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." . The days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful... | |
 | 1839 - 444 Seiten
...the human character. Prosperity may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious principle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 Seiten
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | 1855 - 676 Seiten
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 Seiten
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - 300 Seiten
...tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that... | |
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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. 
