 Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Pàgina 37per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 566 pàgines
..." but not always best subjeets." He quotes the convenient sen* Anglo-Saxon Church, p. 76. tence, " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool :" and he does not continue with the great author, who proceeds to say, " it is indifferent for judges... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 562 pàgines
...servants,"... and he omits what follows: " but not always best subjects." He quotes the convenient sentence, " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool:" and he does not continue with the great author, who proceeds to say, " it is indifferent for judges... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pàgines
...Bacon. " Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. For soldiers, I find that the generals in their hortatives commonly put men in mind of their wives... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 pàgines
...If you feed not the bodies 0 Non bene fit quod occupaio animofit. Hieron. Epist. 553. ad Paulin. PA single life doth well with churchmen , for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pàgines
...If you feed not the bodies 0 Non bene fit quod occupato animofit. Hieron. Epist. 553. ad Paulin. PA single life doth well with churchmen , for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pàgines
...friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away. A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must fill a pool. It is indifferent for magistrates ; for if they be corrupt, you shall have a servant five... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pàgines
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives...doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly watei the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferentfor judges and magistrates ; for,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pàgines
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives...indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pàgines
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives...indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
 | 1872 - 858 pàgines
...metaphor, but that is one which is an argument instead of a mere ornament. " A single life," he says, " doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Bacon's sententious gravity raises a common-place to the rank of a grand philosophical axiom ; Fuller's... | |
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