 | Christian life - 1835 - 334 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' OF PRAYER. Ouu prayers should run parallel to promises ; we should ask nothing of God but what we have... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - 1002 pages
...in the carriage, they turned hastily away to conceal the emotion which overpowered them. CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord BACON'S Essuyt. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans expected that the controul which the unfortunate Countess... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1835 - 240 pages
...case of need. The hour of need is fast approaching ; you will not forget your promises !" CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours — most...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... | |
 | Plebeians - 1836 - 858 pages
...judgments and actions are swayed by a sense of private wrong. CHAPTER IV. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...vice — but adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. SIR John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were in course of rebuilding with all possible dispatch;... | |
 | Author of Old maids - Social classes - 1836 - 210 pages
...judgments and actions are swayed by a sense of private wrong. CHAPTER XXIII. POVERTY AND TEMPTATION. " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice — bnt adversity doth best discover virtue." Bacon. Sir John Manford's mill, and Factory Hall were... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...instant that such degree of sympathy is exceeded, we hurt ourselves and not our adversary. WALTER SCOTT. VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. BACON. OH ! what a tmrare m a vatmtm* Wife, Discreet and loving; not one gift on earth .Makes a man's... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, bul adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...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... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...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 - 870 pages
...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 ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The ЛГоккт Organum and the... | |
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... 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 upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of... 
