 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
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1861 - 926 páginas
...Important to the general prosperity, they may find happiness in their own pursuit. Lord Bacon says : " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And is there any situation more consonant to the wisdom of the philosopher than that of the American... | |
 | The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 páginas
...antiquity. And Lord Bacon, the wisest man of modern times, says, • • seek not proud riches, but rather such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly." And can there be a truer description of a farmer's fortune f There is no greater independence than... | |
 | 1846 - 418 páginas
...antiquity. And Lord Bacon, the wisest man of modern times, says, " seek not proud riches, but rather such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly." And can there be a truer description of a farmer's fortune Î There is no greater independence than... | |
 | 1851 - 316 páginas
...all that could oppose. WEALTH. — It is a beautiful remark of Lord Bacon, " Seek not proud wealth ; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And says the late William Wirt — a name that will long be illustrious in American history — "Excessive... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...and not always in fact: for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. B XB yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them ; but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 páginas
...imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. marum sum : " one futile person, that maketh it his...will do more hurt than many that know it their dut Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of RabiriuB... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1850 - 688 páginas
...antiquity. And Lord Bacon, the wisest man of modern times, says, " Seek not proud riches, but rather such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. And can there be a truer description of a farmer's fortune ? There is no greater independence than... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - 348 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 distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Babirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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 Eabirius... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...insatiability which sometimes attends it. — Essay on the Passions. WEALTH. — Seek not proud wealth ; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. — Lord Bacon. WEALTH. — Excessive wealth is neither glory nor iappiness. The cold and sordid wretch... | |
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