 | John Webster - English literature - 1927 - 340 pages
...(Arber), p. 41 : "If you pownd Spices, they smell the sweeter"; Bacon, Of Adversity (quoted by Dyce): "Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue". HDS points out that Webster cannot however be borrowing from Bacon, since the passage quoted first... | |
 | United States. Congress House - 1938 - 86 pages
...And Lord Bacon, in his essay Of Adversity, tells us: Certainly virtue is like precious odors, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. The adversity of the period discovered outstanding virtue in ANDREW JACKSON MONTAGUE. He did not fold... | |
 | Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1896 - 642 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,...they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth beat discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." BACON. (4) So have I seen a lark rising... | |
 | Alfred Pownall - Bible - 1864 - 112 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,...best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.—Bacon's Essays. Amid the thorns and"briars of this working-day world "' there is nothing... | |
 | Lisa Jardine - Science - 1974 - 300 pages
...regarded as a welcome test of fortitude and divine mercy: Certainly virtue is like precious odours, more fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity...vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. [VI, 386] Bacon, like many of his contemporaries, collected in a notebook apophthegms which struck him in... | |
 | Philip Edwards - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...therefore, of the Pleasure of the Heart, by the Pleasure of the Eye. Certainly, Vertue is like pretious Odours, most fragrant, when they are incensed, or...best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue. 38 The centre of the essay is the strange legend that the sufferings of Prometheus were relieved... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed9 or crushed:10 for Prosperity doth best discover* vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 6. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION Dissimulation* is but a faint kind of policy" or wisdom; for it... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...different range of possibilities. This is signalled by the opening words of the essay: Dissimularion 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. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politiques that are the great dissemblers.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome0 ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed0 or crushed:0 for Prosperity doth best discover0 vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | David Burchell, Andrew Leigh - Political Science - 2002 - 208 pages
...by the result. (Machiavelli, 1975 [1513]: from ch. xviii) On political vices, by Sir Francis Bacon: Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom; for it asks a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth, and to do it. Therefore it is... | |
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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... 
