 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...better, Impedimenta. For as the Baggage is to an Army, fo is Riches to Virtue. It cannot be fpared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the March ; yea, and the care of it, fometimes, lofeth or difturbeth the Vidtory : Of great Riches, there is no real Ufe, except it be in... | |
 | Food - 1852 - 638 pages
...cannot be called by a better name than the baggage of virtue ; for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindoreth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory." With riches,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared or left behind, and yet it bindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth...be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. — Lord Bacon, RICHES. — He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. — Sir T.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...word is better, "impedimenta;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue, it can not be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march...'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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...word is better, "impedimenta;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue, it can not be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march...real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest ia but conceit." — Lord Bacon. Essay 34. 1 Ovid expresses the same idea ia the following passage... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 864 pages
...of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ;" for as the baggage is to an мшу, во is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind,...the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth ur disturbeth the victory ; of great riches there ia no real use, except it bo in the distribution... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - Ethics - 1855 - 440 pages
...have sold more men than they have bought out. As baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. — It hindereth the march, yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory." — " It is to be feared that the general tendency of rank, and especially of riches, is to withdraw... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 pages
...baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ;" for as the baggRge is to an army, BO is riches to virtue, it cannot be spared nor left behind,...be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. — Lord Bacon, Essay 34. f Ovid expresses the same idea in the following passage : — " Et genus... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1856 - 430 pages
...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 1narch ; yen, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory ; of great riches there... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better — impedimeuta ; ' for as the baggage is to an array, so is riches to virtue — it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hiudereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches... | |
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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,... 
