 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...the difference between public and private envy. A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others evil ; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...the difference between public and private envy. A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue,... | |
 | 1828 - 448 pages
...wound, wrested out of tune, and goes false.—Feilham. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon other's evil ; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is not of hope to attain... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...the difference between public and private envys A man that hath no virtue in himself ever •envieth virtue in others ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one will prey •upon the other : and whoso is out of hope to attain another's... | |
 | George Burges - Church and state - 1835 - 256 pages
...natural course of the debased mind to debase others. "A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...known at all. SINCLAIR'S Modern Accomplishments. A MAN that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope to attain another's virtue,... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...SINCLAIR!S Modern Accomplishments. A MAN that hath no virtue in himself, ever envicth virtue in uthers ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one, will prey apon the other; and whoso is out of hope to attain anther's virtue,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...the difference between public and private envy. A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil ; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other : and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's... | |
 | 536 pages
...girdle bound. Lyra Apostólica. ©#€> A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever euvieth the virtue of others: for men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others' evil; and who wantelh the one, will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain another's virtue,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...envy. A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever i He preferred his old woman to immortality. envieth virtue in others ; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other ; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's... | |
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A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds will either feed upon their own good or upon others... 
