 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean : the virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue...work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...mathematicks subtle, natural philosophic deepe, moral, grave; logicke and rhetoricke able to contend. virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...grows weary of examining, and is tempted to consider all as equally fallacious. — Johnson. LXIX. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee. Shakrpeare. We see in needleworks and mbnideriei, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the affliotion of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...is the blessing of the New, which cariieth ' the greater benediction, atfdthe clearer reve-/ lation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly un<l with diligence and attention. virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
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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 laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not... 
