 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground,... | |
 | 1827 - 316 pages
...prevent our comprehending, nothing but wilful ertor can hinder us from embracing". — IHiss Mare. "Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are crushed. The virtue of prosperity is temperance,... | |
 | 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...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 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...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Bacon. Quality alone should only serve to make a shew in the embroidered part of the government j hut... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solenm ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of... | |
 | 1831 - 548 pages
...the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the affliotion of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes;...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 burned... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | 1835 - 334 pages
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not' without many fears and distastes...and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We sec in needle-works and embroideries it is niore pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root. 108 HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. II 7 " We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." HOBBES'S THEORY OF LAUGHTER. Soon after I was called to the bar I happened to be in the criminal court... | |
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and ad.versity 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... 
