 | Francis Bacon - 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 - 1818 - 312 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed :...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart, by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed :...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed ;...discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom; for it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1821 - 416 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. VI. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. DISSIMULATION is but a faint kind of policy, or wisdom ; for it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 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... | |
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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 the eye. Certainly... 
