 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 páginas
...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." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1838 - 870 páginas
...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 ;...Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The ЛГоккт Organum and the De Augmentis are much talked of, but little read. They have produced indeed... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 páginas
...accustomed.—Bacon. 1163. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished,—Ib. 1164. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Ib. 1165. "When Nero perished by the justest doom Which ever the destroyer yet destroyed,... | |
 | 1838 - 822 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. perity has shined upon it, then like a snake it presently recovers its former strength and venom.*... | |
 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 páginas
...few would fix their attention on the glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...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... | |
 | 1839 - 444 páginas
...the human character. Prosperity may be joyful to the sense, but adversity is healthful to the soul. " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the head ' Prometheus, or the State of Man:'... | |
 | 1855 - 676 páginas
...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...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... | |
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Solomon. 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... 
