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
| 1855 - Страниц: 676
...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 precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - Страниц: 512
...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... | |
| Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - Страниц: 1020
...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 . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous. Laura found her mother much disappointed, it was true,... | |
| Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - Страниц: 448
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. NOTICES OF BOOKS. MEANS AND ENDS ; OR, SELF-TRAINING. By the Author of Redwood, Home, fyc. THIS book... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Страниц: 520
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - Страниц: 410
...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... | |
| Sara Wood - 1843 - Страниц: 312
...thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " 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. THE few months that had preceded her father and sister's visit to town, had been a time... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - Страниц: 254
...and higher virtue. It was a wise man who said, " Virtue, like a precious odour, is most fragrant when crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." When those we love are in trouble, let us feel that we have a two-fold office, to cheer, and to help... | |
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