 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 410 pages
...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...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 - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...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...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
...secure, that to this very hour, I firmly believe that no one but a carpenter could ever have got me out." WE see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more...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
...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 - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...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 - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...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 - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...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 - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...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... | |
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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.... 
