 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is 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 have a dark and melancholy work...  The British Prose Writers - Page 201821Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Sara Wood - English fiction - 1843 - 312 pages
...thing that concerned her. CHAPTER XVII. " Certainly, Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth...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... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Conduct of life - 1843 - 254 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 636 pages
...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...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. — Lord Bacon. A WORD TO THE WISE.— Infallible truth informs us that " pure religion and undefiled... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtu*.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...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, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...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, virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | 1905 - 1004 pages
...language. Take this from the essay Of Adversity: — Virtue is like precious odors. Most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; For prosperity doth...discover vice. But adversity doth best discover virtue. Not a word here has been altered from the prose form in which it appears in the original. Then in the... | |
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