 | Mary Ashdowne - 1839 - 328 páginas
...on the glory of a future state. Sublimely has Bacon observed, that " virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." . The days of our childhood have perhaps been the most faithful portion of our lives in the discharge... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...ground. Judge 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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.' It is by the ' Essays' that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed :...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. anthor's treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients, under the head ' Prometheus, or the State of Man:'... | |
 | 1855 - 676 páginas
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precio'us odors, more fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. "SUBJECTS." — A bill in the Maine legislature to surrender the bodies of paupers... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the Essays that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Augmentis... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 páginas
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by the "Essays" that Bacon is best known to the multitude. The Novum Organum and the De Jlugmentis... | |
 | Sara Wood - 1843 - 312 páginas
...ignorance of any thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " Certainly, Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for...discover Vice, but adversity doth best discover Virtue." Lord BACON. THE few months that had preceded her father and sister's visit to town, had been a time... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 páginas
...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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. NOTICES OF BOOKS. MEANS AND ENDS ; OR, SELF-TRAINING. By the Author of Redwood, Home, fyc. THIS book... | |
 | 1843 - 596 páginas
...under the severest trials, both in life and in death. " Certainly," (says Lord Bacon,) " virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth but discover vice, and adversity doth but discover virtue." LAWS AND LAWYERS, JEWISH, ROMAN, ENGLISH... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1843 - 254 páginas
...and higher virtue. It was a wise man who said, " Virtue, like a precious odour, is most fragrant when crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." When those we love are in trouble, let us feel that we have a two-fold office, to cheer, and to help... | |
| |
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 the eye. Certainly... 
