 ... 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...  Plebeians and Patricians - Pàgina 136per Author of Old maids - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. <Df Simulation antt 29i00itnulation. DISSIMULATION is but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. (!M Simulation attlr &i00imulation. DISSIMULATION is but a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pàgines
...lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pàgines
...lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pàgines
...lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. • VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pàgines
...lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION.* Dissimulation is but... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 398 pàgines
...612 " street." t Perfumes, the more they are chaf'd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Eisayt; " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity Their pleasing scents ; and so affliction Expresseth virtue fully, whether true, Or else adulterate.... | |
 | John Webster, Alexander Dyce - 1830 - 384 pàgines
...612 " sweet." t Perfumes, the mitre they are chaf'd, &c.] Compare Lord Bacon's Essayi; " Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity Their pleasing scents ; and so affliction Expresseth virtue fully, whether true, Or else adulterate.... | |
 | Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1835 - 1002 pàgines
...carriage, they turned hastily away to conceal the emotion which overpowered them. CHAPTER XX. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when...crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. Lord BACON'S Essuyt. MRS. MORGAN and Amy Evans expected that... | |
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