 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.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity will hardly water the ground where it...for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile 1 and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 pages
...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 where it...must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges aud magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 pages
...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 where it must first fill a pool.1 It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...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 where it must first fill a pool.1 It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...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 where it must first fill a pool.1 It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile 1 His meaning is, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well •with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it...find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put mm in miud of their wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks maketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 436 pages
...out : p. 238, 1. 8. Facile, adj. Easily swayed, fickle, pliant: p. 222, 1. 27. 'If they (ie judges) be facile, and corrupt, you shall have a servant, five times worse than a wife.' Essay viii. p. 27. Facility, sb. Pliancy: p. 238, 1. 21. See quotation under Apply. Facture, sb. Shape,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1885 - 208 pages
...ecclesiastic. Bacon says (Essay viii. p. 27, ed. Wright), ' A Single Life doth well with Church men : For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it must first fill a Poole.' 8. lies, lodges or dwells. The joke here is of the same kind as the previous one. 12. a cheveril... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1920 - 196 pages
...ecclesiastic. Bacon says (Essay viii. p. 27, ed. Wright), ' A Single Life doth well with Church men : For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it must first fill a Poole." 8. lies, lodges or dwells. The joke here is of the same kind as the previous one. . 12. a cheveril... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - Marriage - 1886 - 332 pages
...to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition A single life doth well with church men, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." After all, these enumerations of the comparative advantages of marriage and celibacy are of little... | |
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