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The Essays or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political; With Elegant Sentences, Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil
The Essays or Counsels Moral Economical and Political With Elegant Sentences Hints for Conversation and on the Choice of Good and Evil Author:Francis Bacon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Printed for John Booth Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where ... more »you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. 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. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed : for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.« less