 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 work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye....  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - الصفحة 287بواسطة Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 744عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities...the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. 17 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed: for... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...shall hear as many herse.like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured ' more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like... | |
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