 But this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully,...  The Saturday Magazine - Página 441835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 páginas
...and not always in fact; for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them, but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 páginas
...fact ; for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud IJ riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly: yet have no abstract'4 nor friarly '5 contempt of them ; but distinguish, as Cicero '6 saith well of... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 páginas
...upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty. — I/ ESTRA NGE. Seek not proud wealth; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. — BACON. Conscience and wealth are not always neighbors. — MASSINGER. He that will not permit his wealth to... | |
 | Theodore Thornton Munger - 1897 - 72 páginas
...borrowing, bequeathing, would almost argue a perfect man." Bacon discourses in the same strain : " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." A remark of Bulwer's clinches the thought : " Never treat money affairs with levity; money is character."... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 páginas
...and not always in fact: for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them ; but distinguished, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 páginas
...and not always in fact : for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them ; but distinguished, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 páginas
...and not always in fact : for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them ; but distinguished, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Charles Sedgwick May - 1899 - 484 páginas
...believe the same great authority announced the true rule of moderation and of wisdom in the injunction, " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." Riches, like everything else which is given us here, have their • uses. But as every other thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 páginas
...imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them. But distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 páginas
...imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them: but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
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