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 work... The British Prose Writers - Стр. 201821Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - Страниц: 458
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." The essays were immediately translated into French and Italian, and into Latin by some of his friends,... | |
| 1835 - Страниц: 334
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
| Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - Страниц: 1002
...emotion which overpowered them. CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord BACON'S Essuyt. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans expected that the controul which the unfortunate Countess... | |
| Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - Страниц: 240
...forget your promises !" CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours — most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but advercity doth best discover virtue. Loiui BACON'S Essays. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans had expected that... | |
| Plebeians - 1836 - Страниц: 858
...private wrong. CHAPTER IV. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth...vice — but adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. SIR John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were in course of rebuilding with all possible dispatch;... | |
| 1837 - Страниц: 608
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bul adversity doth best... | |
| Cynosure - 1837 - Страниц: 272
...hurt ourselves and not our adversary. WALTER SCOTT. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. BACON. OH ! what a tmrare m a vatmtm* Wife, Discreet and loving; not one gift on earth .Makes a man's... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1837 - Страниц: 400
...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." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - Страниц: 894
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge erfection of boldness, they will but slight it over,...and no more ado. Certainly to men of great judgment when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
| 1838 - Страниц: 822
...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. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
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