 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...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...doth |best discover vice, but adversity doth best discoe ver virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* -^ ;• DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...pleasing to bar; 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...the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity doth bes.t discover vice, but adversity... | |
 | Waldo Howard - 1850 - 310 pages
...Hardhead's health in a glass of purl. CHAPTER XXVI. EDITH AND CLARA. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. THE reader will remember the night when the two burglars and the little boy effected their... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon s that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | 1850 - 790 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 ; fur prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord... | |
 | 1850 - 632 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by tlie 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... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. HE who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point ; and where... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...pleasing to have 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...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1851 - 626 pages
...pleasant 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." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
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Solomon. 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... 
