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.... Chapters from the Bible of the Ages - Página 159editado por - 1872 - 400 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...Solomon. I'roimcrity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversitv is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. C*rtainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity... | |
| 1850 - 790 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries,...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... | |
| 1850 - 632 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries,...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries,...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 - 892 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity in 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 have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome... | |
| Ears - 1851 - 176 páginas
...harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the...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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not w ithout many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,...pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice,... | |
| 1851 - 626 páginas
...adverrity it not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasant to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground...pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye." What are these images of, viz., the " lively work ;" the " sad and solemn ground;" the "dark and melancholy... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 páginas
...Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries,...ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon * lightsome ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly... | |
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