 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
 | 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... | |
 | 1838 - Страниц: 870
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The ЛГоккт Organum and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - Страниц: 898
...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, j VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - Страниц: 360
...overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. 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.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - Страниц: 404
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - Страниц: 398
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 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - Страниц: 328
...future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " 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 days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful portion of our lives in the discharge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - Страниц: 244
...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... | |
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