 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....  Reviews, Essays, and Poems - Страница 432по Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1058 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1852 - 780 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have ration, led them to treat the Asiatics with contempt...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have some fine pavement about it doth well. As for the...may call a bathing pool, it may admit much curiosity VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Dissimulation is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | 1856 - 374 страници
...fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 страници
...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...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 страници
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. THE DYING SCHOLAR, A POOR Sabbath-school girl was found by a lady in a hospital, very... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. 1 Ut a granditate verborum ad mediocritattm dctcendamus. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION... | |
 | 1857 - 632 страници
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1857 - 372 страници
...not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...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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