 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have the narrative of Herodotus, it should seem that they still looked up, with the f ye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crashed ; for... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1852 - 332 pages
...body, and burst into tears. 160 161 CHAPTER XLIX. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — BACON. IT is somewhat remarkable, that while Talbot was bequeathing to Clarence, as the most valuable... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...have a dark and melancholy rk upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heurt by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like...where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity dotli best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, [Friendship,] It had been hard for... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have kind of fountain, which we may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Wesleyan pulpit - 1855 - 652 pages
...perdition." It was the saying of Lord Bacon, " certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." Many are now in hell, cursing their success in business and their worldly prosperity, because by it... | |
 | Edward H. Dixon - Medicine - 1855 - 468 pages
...melancholy work on a lightsome ground. " Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, the more precious when incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Indeed, to carry out this thought to its boldest conclusions, is sin and imperfection in this world... | |
 | Society for the liberation of religion from State patronage and control - 1868 - 230 pages
...nursed in hot unnatural air. It has flourished best in an ungenial soil, and under a bleak sky ; ' for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is not for those who believe in a divine original Christianity, no more than for those who think... | |
 | Robert Bridges - Anglican chants - 1928 - 52 pages
...upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. ]udg therefore of the pleasure of the Heart, by the pleasure of the Eye.' I assert of these passages that they cannot be printed in 44 short sections as free verse without damagand... | |
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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 work... 
