 Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best 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...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 37by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away ; and almost all fugitives...indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
 | 1862 - 458 pages
...affection and means, have married and endowed the public." He adds, with reference to the clergy, that " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." This does not necessarily recommend celibacy to the mass either of laity or of clergy. All laymen are... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 1861 - 446 pages
...declared that " unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, not always best subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition." Now it is clear that there is but one way to make a man a good subject, and fond of his home, namely,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...— Watts. ' Or self-conceited, play the huau,rous 1'lutoniat.' — Drayton. 4 As. That, gee page 26. for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives...hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pqoL It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...shackles. Unmarried men are best friends, best [5] masters, best servants, but not always best subjects ; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well [6] with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the [7] ground where it must first fill a pool. It... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...shackels. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best sen.ants ; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. BACON. Essays. To whom it is as necessary, As to be born and breathe, to marry, Hudibras, Part III.,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...— Wattt. ' Or self-conceited, play the Intmorous Platonist.' — Drayion. * As. That. See page 23. for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives...indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile aiid corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...humorous conduct in affairs.' — Watts. ' Or self-conceited, play the humorous Platonist.' — Drayton. for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives...where it must first fill a pool. It is indifferent for j udges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Friends ; best Masters ; best Servants ; but not alwayes best Subiects ; ; For they are light to runne away ; And almost all Fugitives are of that Condition. A Single Life doth well with Church men: For Charity will hardly water the Ground, where it must first fill a Poole. It is indifferent... | |
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