 | Echoes - 1859 - 216 sivua
...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed, or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 sivua
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover .Tice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 sivua
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences of God's favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover rice, but adversity doth best discover vinue." It is by... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 sivua
...pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the feh'cities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." It is by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 sivua
...Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Salomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure 1 Ut a gramState rcrborum ad mediocrilatem dtscendamus. of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 sivua
...Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. W« see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing...precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue." ' It is... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 sivua
...hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad2 and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy...Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed,' or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 sivua
...more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melaneholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the...the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like preeious odours, most fragrant when they are ineensed or erushed ; for prosperity doth best diseover... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 sivua
...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation...Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 sivua
...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth ttie greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of...Certainly virtue is like precious odours : most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed ; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best... | |
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Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's 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 felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not... 
