 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 - 1881
...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, and leave con- 23 tentedly. Yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 504 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882
...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, and leave con- 25 tentedly. Yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 365 páginas
...philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him, — to the extent of that sixpence. — CARLYLE. 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. — BACON. Economy is of itself a great revenue.... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 277 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... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1883 - 213 páginas
...distribution there is no solid use of them to their owner. Seek not therefore," adds the essayist, " proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly,...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And accordingly, in all systems of morals — Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian — liberality is esteemed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884
...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 or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 425 páginas
...and not always iu 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... | |
 | Fortunate men - 1884
...few of us are careful to cultivate them in ourselves. — SPECTATOR. Wealth. Seek not proud wealth, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. — LORD BACON. Wealth, The Passion for. The eloquent but often scorching Dr. South tells us of those... | |
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