 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pagine
...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...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 - 1844 - 336 pagine
...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...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 pagine
...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...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pleasant odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagine
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen....excite the honor of Bossuet. Nothing, then, can be when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pagine
...describing Christian resolution that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pagine
...distates; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. \Ve see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pagine
...comforts and hopes. We see in needle-workers and imbroiderers, it is more pleasing to have a lively woik upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like pre cious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for Prosperity doth best discover... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pagine
...the frail hark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works and emhroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad...ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pagine
...describing Christian resolution that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more...to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, man to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pagine
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and bopes. with half the loss of mine. Like a rich conquest, in one hand I bore her, And with the other arc incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover... | |
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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 of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.... 
