 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....  Southern Literary Messenger - الصفحة 1951838عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We sec in needle-works and embroideries it is niore pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...approaching ; you will not 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... | |
 | Author of Old maids - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...a sense of private wrong. CHAPTER XXIII. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice — bnt adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. Sir John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were... | |
 | 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see inneedle-worksand embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bul... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. 11 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...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 Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...the human character. Prosperty may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." Under the combined influence of improved taste, much sorrow, and a firmly infixed religious principle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 898
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries,...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
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