 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 - 1856 - 406 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...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 are of 1 Impertiuencies. Things wholly irrelevant ; ihingt of little or no importance. ' O matter and imperlinency... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Mafters, beft Servants ; but not always beft Subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almoft all Fugitives are of that Condition. A Single Life...for Charity will hardly water the Ground where it muft firft fill a Pool. It is indifferent for Judges and Magiftrates : for if they be facile, and corrupt,... | |
 | 1857 - 986 pages
...love from gratitude or faith ; in the last, from compassion or hope. ' 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 - English literature - 1858 - 812 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 are of that 1 in tenera a-tnte Jiliorum tuorum. * ut alibi dizimta. * aihil ad K pertineiitia. condition. A single... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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 are of that 1 in teñera átate ßliorum xuoniiti. * ut alibi diximut. 3 ni/til ad se jjertineittia. с с 4 condition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...Auinoron* Platonist.' — Drayton. 4 As. That. See page 23. viii.] Of Marriage and Single Life. 87 for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives— are of ' tlnt condition. A single life doth~weH with churchmen, for cnarity will hardly water the ground where... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; fo^j they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives are of thati i tn tenera setnte JUiorum taorum. * ut alibi diximut. * nihil ad sc pertinentia. CC 4 condition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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...the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indiflerent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 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 condition. For soldiers, I find that the generals in their hortatives commonly put men in mind of their wives... | |
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