 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 pages
...Bacon) "is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." It is (as Butler observes) the habit of dutiful submission, together with the active principle... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 pages
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to ha« axen, minds, And therefore are they form M as marble...the impression of strange kinds Is formed in them where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bat adversity dolh best... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 474 pages
...harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...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... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1902 - 476 pages
...the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and 30 distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by 35 the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - 1902 - 474 pages
...the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and 30 distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by 35 the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and advenhy is not without comforts and hopes. \Ve see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is lile precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 534 pages
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is life's precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 522 pages
...and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than !.<> have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground....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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs 6 as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed,7 or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 200 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more, in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Salomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. 11 VI OF... | |
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Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not... 
