 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...  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ... - Page 32by Francis Bacon - 1822 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth we'll with churchmen : for charity will hardly water the ground, where it...and children. And I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldiers more base. Certainly, wife and children are a kind of... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...freedom, the spirit of change and progress. 21. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. 12 A single life doth well with Churchmen, 13 for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent 14 for Judges and Magistrates; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first 3o fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates...their wives and children ; and I think the despising 33 of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 430 pages
...doth well with Church men: For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it must first fill a Poole. It is indifferent for Judges and Magistrates : For...have a Servant, five times worse than a Wife. For Souldiers, I finde the Generalls commonly in their Hortatives, put Men in minde of their Wives and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.12 A single life doth well with Churchmen,13 for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent14 for Judges and Magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well for churchmen, . ADDISON. The painter who is content with the praise...his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mec LORD BACON : Essay VIII., Of Married and Single Life. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen: he Virgin Martyr of Massinger sent down from the gardens...and to heaL They are powerful, not only to delight, amongst the Turks maketh the -vulgar soldiers more base. Certainly, wife and children are a kind of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first 3o fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates...their wives and children ; and I think the despising 35 of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are... | |
 | Education, Higher - 1883 - 536 pages
...his assertion that all deformed and old people are envious ? 2. Give the exact meaning of — (i) " It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for...shall have a servant five times worse than a wife." (ii) "Envy is a gadding passion." (iii) " But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty."... | |
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