 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....  Retrospective Review - Strana 142upravili: - 1821Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 str.
...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 have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, ot' the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 str.
...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...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 - 1860 - 1008 str.
...and hopes. W« 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 str.
...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 have a dark and melancholy...therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure 1 Ut a gramState rcrborum ad mediocrilatem dtscendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 str.
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melaneholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like preeious odours, most fragrant when they are ineensed or erushed ; for prosperity doth best diseover... | |
 | John Baillie - 1862 - 40 str.
...imperfectly, to draw aside the veil of such a people's necessities. It is remarked by Lord Bacon that virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity often doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. If in the following pages we... | |
 | Joseph Napier - 1864 - 350 str.
...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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed." It is (as Butler observes) the habit of dutiful submission, together... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 str.
...and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a li vely work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 str.
...hopes. We see in needleworks aud embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work iilon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are in,vused2 or crushed'; for prosperity doth best discover vice, and adversity doth best... | |
 | 1864 - 704 str.
...embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than 438 ADVERSITY. to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
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