 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 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work...  Supplement to the Courant - Seite 561855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 Seiten
...airs as carols; and the pencil of the holy Spirit hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 Seiten
...-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities' of Solomon. Prosperity...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad5 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 Seiten
...not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and emhroideries, it is more pleasing to have lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to...ground ; judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart hy the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1856 - 708 Seiten
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | 1856 - 702 Seiten
...hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a dark and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground ; judge therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 Seiten
...airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts anil hopes. We see in needleworks and emtr iilenes it is more pleaMng to have a lively work apon a... | |
 | 1857 - 240 Seiten
...hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity...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, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 Seiten
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities1 of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 Seiten
...comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work on a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasures of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 Seiten
...Adverfity is not without Comforts and Hopes. We fee in Needleworks and Embroideries, it is more pleafing to have a lively Work upon a Sad and Solemn Ground, than to have a dark and melancholy Work upon a lightfome Ground : Judge, therefore, of the Pleafure of the Heart, by the Pleafure of the Eye. Certainly,... | |
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