 | Henrietta Georgiana Chatterton (M. lady.) - 1840 - 1020 pages
...many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks aoid embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. BACON . EVERYTHING seemed now really prosperous.... | |
 | Miss Lambert (F.) - Needlework - 1842 - 300 pages
...$cCHAPTER XV (funiuiG tUork, " The threaded steel Plies swiftly, and unfelt the task proceeds." COWPER. '' In needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground." BACON. HE reason for comprising the various subjects included in this chapter under one head, is, that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if...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... | |
 | Theology - 636 pages
...PROSPERITY AND ADVERSITY. — The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ;...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... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and t hepencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,...upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...secure, that to this very hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." 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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort 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 pleasant odors, 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... 
