 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...upon a lightsome ground: judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 ページ
...favour. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 ページ
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh, through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean: the virtue of Prosperity is temperance; the virtue...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, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 ページ
...describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. OF SIMULATION AND DISSIMULATION. 17 Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes...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, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 ページ
...that saileth in the frail bark of the flesh through the waves of the world. But to speak in a mean : the virtue of prosperity is temperance ; the virtue...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, most fragrant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...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, most fragrant... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse.like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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, most fragrant... | |
 | 1821 - 400 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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, most fragrant... | |
 | 1821 - 398 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herselike airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost...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, most fragrant... | |
 | 1821 - 416 ページ
...favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many herse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath...a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : jndge, therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like... | |
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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... 
