 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
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...COMPARATIVE. SUPERLATIVE. Well Better Best Badly or ill Worse Worst Little Less Least Much More Most " A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." A, a numeral adjective, qualifying the noun life. It is commonly called the indefinite article. Single,... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...married and endowed the public. . . . Unmarried men are best friends, best masters', best servants. ... A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Seneca, it seems, was of the same opinion : " Vita conjugalis altos et generosos spiritos frangit,... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...married and endowed the public. . . . Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants. ... A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Seneca, it seems, was of the same opinion : "Vita conjugalis altos et generosos spiritos frangit, et... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 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...single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will haidly watei the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1849 - 450 pages
...: — " 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 corrdition. For soldiers, I find that the generals in their hortatives commonly put men in mind of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; Κ`7 R > o HA O * F/}# QG 8 _ іOW( vd M ';N... V ) 00 $ $ [ ? 5): : Ց $ 9 U c[,[ C K$, p 8 b cyD qԋ be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...sei always best subjects ; for they are away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condi- • tion. is it with deceits and evil arts; which, if they be first espied, ; fojjfthey be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. ForsoldJÊTS.... | |
 | Joseph Leech - 1850 - 284 pages
...childish men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public." And again — "A single life doth well with Churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground when it must first fill a pool." And the same thing may be predicted of unmarried females and churchwomen... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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... | |
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