 | Francis Bacon - 1822 - 238 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. XXXV. OF RICHES. I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue;...word is better, "impedimenta ;" for as the baggage i's to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the... | |
 | William Phillips - 1824 - 44 pages
...riches, but such as thou mayst get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. " I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared or left behind, but it hindereth... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. XXXIV. OF RICHES. I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...commiserable persons. XXXIV. OF RICHES. I cannot call riches better than the baggage of \3rirtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ;" for as...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. XXXIV. OF RICHES. I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue...spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea,'and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...that he said was, Sir, I cannot help myself." (a) In his Essay on Riches, vol. i. 119, he says, " I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, ' impedimenta ;' the mind, he lived, not as a philosopher ought to have lived, but as a nobleman had been accustomed... | |
 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...decayed monuments of error! The thin remains of what is called delight! Dr. Young. 176 OF RICHES. — I cannot call riches better than the " baggage" of virtue...impedimenta." For as the baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...may die in the pring-time, that she may have tore of flowers strewed with her orpse. The Milkmaid. As the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue...spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march. Bacon. All heavenly beauties join themselves in one, To show their glory in thine eye alone ; Which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. OF RICHES. I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory ; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...King signed a warrant for the release ™' of the parliamentary fine, and to prevent the immediate for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory." (a) Aul. Coq. Qy. (6) To Sir Robert Pye. Good Sir Robert Pye, — Let me intreat... | |
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I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes... 
