 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in... | |
 | Education - 1851 - 626 pages
...warbling of music ;" (b) Poetry a shadow ; ft) The " lively work upon a sad and solemn ground." (d) " Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." ft) A compassionate heart compared " to the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm."... | |
 | 1851 - 854 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion — it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1851 - 880 pages
...similar circumstances, but few votaries. As Lord Bacon says of virtue, we may say of religion—- it is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. Of his early years we know little. They were overshadowed, we know, by one cloud — the Great Plague.... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 332 pages
...it!" said Clarence, as he flung himself beside the body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley (1st duke of Wellington.), Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - 1852 - 204 pages
...that Marshal Marmont had gained a great victory at Salamanca. " Dissimulation," says Lord Bacon, " is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom, for it asketh...strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth, and to do it." This maxim applies well to the difference between the characters of Buonaparte... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the f ye. istance to the English during the action. But, as soon as he saw that the fate of crashed ; for prosperity doth best discover rice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...the following sentences, viz.: — * Longfellow's "Hyperion." " Virtue is like precious odours, mottt fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, hut adversity doth best discover virtue." — Bacons JSssay," Of Adversity'-' " The joys of parents... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are. — Swift. DISSIMULATION. — Dissimulation is but a faint kind...strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth, and to do it : therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that are the greatest dissemblers.... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...wise sayings of Lord Bacon, that, " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are most incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Dr. Cheever draws some very useful and important lessons from the processes of vegetation, as illustrative... | |
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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... 
