 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 Seiten
...and extinguisheth is of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious envy: "Extinctus amabitur idem."10 pid growth in material prosperity. OF ADVERSITY V'Ce' but adveraitv doth best discover ™*tae. (From the same) OF WISDOM FOR A MAN'S... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 576 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Bridges - 1916 - 368 Seiten
...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 Ad-veriity doth best... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 964 Seiten
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [50 heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most ico fragrant when... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 Seiten
...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...solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy 35 work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 428 Seiten
...over joy in the Old Testament, and one which by an unusual figure of speech suggests that we " judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." The essay Of Studies is really a collection of texts, upon any one of which an extended discourse might... | |
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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.... 
