 | 1858 - 798 pages
...is not without comforts and hopes.' " ' So in our needleworks and embroideries, Thomas, you see 'tis more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and...dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Tis the same in tfc heart, love ; the same, gnrely ! tte pleasure of the heart by the pleasure ff.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Love - 1858 - 294 pages
...benediction and the clearer evidence ' of God's favour. We see in needle-works and em' broideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon ' a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melan' choly work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore ' of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Love - 1858 - 274 pages
...pleasing to have a lively work upon ' a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melan' choly work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore ' of...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye'. But it is impossible to believe that the great teacher's own heart went with this judgment. Wealth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 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 pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad 3 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 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 .Tice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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...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,... | |
 | Augusta Browne - 1859 - 350 pages
...hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasures of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1008 pages
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. W« see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing...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 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...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... | |
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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.... 
