 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
 | Dugald Stewart - 1868 - 482 pàgines
...son And filial love, a love so like his own." ters, best servants, but not always best subjects, foi 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 rrren in mind of their wives... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1871 - 478 pàgines
...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.' which she has deliberately laid upon them mean as little as excise affidavits or Bow Street oaths —... | |
 | 1872 - 844 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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...are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen;5 for 1 Yet it were, &c.] Compare the Advancement, beginning of Bk. II. ' Those which are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pàgines
...humorous conduct in affairs.'—Watts. ' Or self-conceited, play the humorous Platonist.'—Drayton. 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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 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 are of that condition. A single life doth well witli churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pàgines
...shackles. 25 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...charity will hardly water the ground where it must first 3o fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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...are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen,8 for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.4 It is indifferent... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pàgines
...Single Life. 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 for churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent... | |
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