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 - 1854 - Страниц: 894
...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... | |
| George Edmonds - 1855 - Страниц: 432
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| Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - Страниц: 652
...perdition." It was the saying of Lord Bacon, " 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." Many are now in hell, cursing their success in business and their worldly prosperity, because by it... | |
| Edward H. Dixon - 1855 - Страниц: 468
...melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Indeed, to carry out this thought to its boldest conclusions, is sin and imperfection in this world... | |
| Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control - 1868 - Страниц: 230
...nursed in hot unnatural air. It has flourished best in an ungenial soil, and under a bleak sky ; ' for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is not for those who believe in a divine original Christianity, no more than for those who think... | |
| Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1855 - Страниц: 488
...tears. CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precions odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed i for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Bacou. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
| 1856 - Страниц: 374
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — iMrd Bacon. LXX. If parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - Страниц: 562
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasnre of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ANNOTATIONS. Some kinds of adversity are chiefly of the character of TRIALS, and others of DISCIPLINE.... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - Страниц: 474
...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like...they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth hest discover vice, hut adversity doth hest discover virtue." — Bacon. Now, my co-mates and hrothers... | |
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