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 pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.... Bacon's Essays: With Annotations - Стр. 62авторы: Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - Страниц: 588Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Francis Bacon - 1812 - Страниц: 348
...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...or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF Simulation and 2Di00imulation. DISSIMULATION is but a faint... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - Страниц: 310
...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...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1818 - Страниц: 312
...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 dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - Страниц: 310
...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 dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - Страниц: 602
...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 dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - Страниц: 548
...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 dark and melancholy...or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - Страниц: 402
...hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon . sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
| 1821 - Страниц: 400
...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 dark and melancholy...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
| Henry Southern - 1821 - Страниц: 398
...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 dark and melancholy...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
| 1821 - Страниц: 398
...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 dark and melancholy...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of... | |
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