 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF Simulation and 2Di00imulation. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it asketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it asketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. <Df Simulation antt 29i00itnulation. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue. (!M Simulation attlr &i00imulation. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...wisdom ; for it asketh a strong wit, and a strong neart, to know when to tell truth, and to do it. Therefore it is the weaker sort of politicians that... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of Nature, that " The parts and signs of goodness... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of Nature, that " The parts and signs of goodness... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of Nature, that " The parts and signs of goodness... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." And when we read, in his essay on Goodness and Goodness of Nature, that " The parts and signs of goodness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...melancholy work upon a lightsome ground: judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours,...discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. Tacitus saith, Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband, and dissimulation of her son; attributing... | |
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... 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 upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of... 
