 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....  Southern Literary Messenger - Stran 1951838Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 strani
...distastes ; and adversity ie not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it ie more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work npon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of .the eye.... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 strani
...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...pleasure of the eye. - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 strani
...without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 strani
...many fears and distastes ; and adversitv is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works a rude stream, that must for ever hide me. Vain pomp...favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 strani
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to bar; a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, piost fragrant when they are incensed or crushed 0)for prosperity doth bes.t discover vice,... | |
 | 1850 - 632 strani
...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...upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by tlie pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours— most... | |
 | 1850 - 790 strani
...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...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 strani
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks it always cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly,...wheat. X. OF LOVE.« ! THE stage is more beholding to l pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 strani
...many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 strani
...without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comfort and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively...pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but... | |
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