 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 - Page 37by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best sen-ants; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives...where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for jndges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...be bonds and shackles. Unmarried men are 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...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 (than married men)... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not * See note D at the end. 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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not * See note D at the end. 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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not * See note D at the end. 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... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 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...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 (than married men)... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1825 - 638 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...hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool ; " yet it will also, we apprehend, be allowed, that single men arc " more cruel (than married men)... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...If you feed not the bodies ° Non bene fit quod occupato ammo fit. Hieron. Epist. 553. ad Paulin. PA single life doth well with churchmen , for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men,... | |
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