 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 - Página 287por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries,...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. HE who builds upon the present, builds upon the narrow compass of a point ; and where... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not w ithout many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth, best... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 páginas
...not/without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1851 - 626 páginas
...adverrity it not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 páginas
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and dislaMcs ; arid adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation ; which we did. And 'hereupon the man, whom I before...because of the cross we had seen in the mbscription. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 páginas
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more, in describing the afflictions of Job, than the...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, 01 crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice ;... | |
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