 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 - Page 287by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure 1 Ut a gramState rcrborum ad mediocrilatem dtscendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; ] for... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed,' or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - Biography - 1863 - 580 pages
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like 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... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." It is (as Butler observes) the habit of dutiful submission, together with the active principle of obedience,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a li vely work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best <}iscover virtue. 61. OP CUNNING. We take cunning for a sinister, or crooked wisdom ; and certainly... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...hopes. We see in needleworks aud embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work iilon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...like precious odours, most fragrant when they are in,vused2 or crushed'; for prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best discover virtue.... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 704 pages
...embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than 438 ADVERSITY. to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure 1 Ut a gram&tate verborum ad mediocritatem descendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; l for... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And the adversity which overtook Francis Bacon displayed all the nobility of his intellect and the... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 508 pages
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like 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... | |
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