 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...Mafters, bell Servants, but not always beft Subjects •, for they are light to run awa.y, and almoir all fugitives are of that condition. A Single Life...for Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it muft firii fill a Pool. It is indifferent for Judges and Magiftrates; for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
 | John Lingard - Anglo-Saxons - 1810 - 570 pages
...married and endowed the public. "... Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best ser" vants. ... A single life doth well with churchmen : for " charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a " pool." Bacon's essays, p. 17, London 1696. A Roman philosopher was of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates : for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...masters, best sen-ants; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life...for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for jndges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...best friends, 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 churchmeh\ for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...information: for though it should be admitted, as it is admitted by Lord Bacon, that in one respect a single life " doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool ; " yet it will also, we apprehend, be allowed, that single men are " more cruel... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...but not * See note D at the end. always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life...for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt,... | |
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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... 
