 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen : for charity will hardly...water the ground, where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...subjects ; for they are away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condi- • tion. A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly...water the ground where it % must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; fojjfthey be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | 1855 - 724 pages
...in the first instance, they love from gratitude or faith ; in the last, from compassion or hope. ' A single life,' said Bacon, ' doth well with churchmen,...affections. Wordsworth speaks strongly of the evils of ordainiug men as clergymen in places where they had been born or brought up, or in the midst of their... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates : for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Subjedts : For they are light to run away ; and almoft all Fugitives are of that Condition. A Single Life doth well with Churchmen : For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it muft firft fill a Pool. It is indifferent for Judges and Magiftrates : For if they be facile, and corrupt,... | |
 | James Bryce - 1852 - 630 pages
...if they do it not, cannot be done, must of necessity be neglected ; seeing that, according to Bacon, "charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." least the lay membership of the Free Church will, we are assured, not long stand aloof; and this great... | |
 | 1852 - 548 pages
...contrary, it was well calculated to bring down upon his ideal patriarch the quotation that patronage, like charity, " will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool," and that in this case there must be filled not one pool only, but thirty pools, before there could... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...subjects ; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life ip ! It is indifferent for judges and magistrates: for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...from compassion or hope. 'A «ingl« life,' said Bacon, ' doth well with churchmen, for charif Twill1 hardly water the ground where it must first fill a...charities are more diffused, as well as healthier aid warmer, through the strength of their domestic affections. Wordsworth speaks strongly of the evils... | |
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A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool. 
