 | 1864 - 704 pages
...For as the baggage is to an army, so are riches to V1rtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Great riches have sold more men than they have . Seek not proud riches ; but such as thou get justly,... | |
 | 1866 - 578 pages
...for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real j use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. ANECDOTES AND SELECTIONS. r Do GOOD.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner but the sight of it with his eyes?" The personal fruition in any [2] man cannot reach to feel great... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 782 pages
...for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit The personal fruition in any man cannot reach to feel great riches : there is a custody of them ; 01;... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1867 - 434 pages
...for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit The personal fruition in any man cannot reach to feel great riches : there is a custody of them ; or... | |
 | 1867 - 788 pages
...for as the baggage is to an army, 80 is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes...be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit." — Bacon. 322 " I dwell among mine men People." [OCTOBER, "I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN PEOPLE" BY "OPAL."... | |
 | 1867 - 844 pages
...cannot be spared or left -behind, but it bindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes low-ill or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is...be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit." An author of more modern times has observed, that " Avarice hangs like a dead weight upon the soul,... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1868 - 518 pages
...virtue." "As the baggage to an army, so are riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner but the sight of it with his eyes?'" The philosophy of riches is thus expounded : " Seek not proud... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it Bometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches...there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner but the sight of it with his eyes?" The personal fruition in any man cannot reach to feel great riches... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...for aa the baggage is to an army, so ia riches to virtue, it can not be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes...be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit." — Lord Bacon, Essay 34. 1 Ovid expresses the same idea in the following passage: "Et genus et proavos... | |
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I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes... 
