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 - Pągina 37per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1855 - 724 pągines
...love from gratitude or faith ; in the last, from compassion or hope. ' A single life,' said Bacon, ' doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Certainly there are men whose charities are limited, if not dried up, by their concentrated domestic... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1851 - 480 pągines
...duteous son And filial love, a love so like his own." ters, 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pągines
...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 - 1852 - 394 pągines
...Mafters, beft Servants ; but not always beft Subjedts : For they are light to run away ; and almoft all Fugitives are of that Condition. A Single Life...For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it muft firft fill a Pool. It is indifferent for Judges and Magiftrates : For if they be facile, and corrupt,... | |
| 1852 - 548 pągines
...contrary, it was well calculated to bring down upon his ideal patriarch the quotation that patronage, like charity, " will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool," and that in this case there must be filled not one pool only, but thirty pools, before there could... | |
| James Bryce - 1852 - 630 pągines
...if they do it not, cannot be done, must of necessity be neglected ; seeing that, according to Bacon, "charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." least the lay membership of the Free Church will, we are assured, not long stand aloof; and this great... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pągines
...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 - 1854 - 894 pągines
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; @ " be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 pągines
...destruction. In the unrest of freedom the spirit of change and progress. 21. " i SINGLE life," said Bacon, " doth well with •£*- churchmen, for charity will...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Certainly there are men whose charities are limited, if not dried up, by their concentrated domestic... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 pągines
...: — " 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... | |
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