 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...run away ; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmeh\ 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...character, was their solitary celibacy. Many writers, and, among the rest, Mr. Cobbett, have however supposed the single life of the Romish clergy to be...it will also, we apprehend, be allowed, that single men are " more cruel (than married men) and hard-hearted, (good to make severe inquisitors,) because... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1825 - 638 pages
...character, was their solitary celibacy. Many writers, and, among the rest, Mr. Cobbett, have however supposed the single life of the Romish clergy to be...it will also, we apprehend, be allowed, that single men arc " more cruel (than married men) and hard-hearted, (good to make severe inquisitors,) because... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 548 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...If you feed not the bodies ° Non bene fit quod occupato ammo fit. Hieron. Epist. 553. ad Paulin. PA single life doth well with churchmen , for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...servants,"... and he omits what follows: " but not always best subjects." He quotes the convenient sentence, " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool:" and he does not continue with the great author, who proceeds to say, " it is indifferent for judges... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 566 pages
..." but not always best subjeets." He quotes the convenient sen* Anglo-Saxon Church, p. 76. tence, " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool :" and he does not continue with the great author, who proceeds to say, " it is indifferent for judges... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 pages
...If you feed not the bodies 0 Non bene fit quod occupaio animofit. Hieron. Epist. 553. ad Paulin. PA single life doth well with churchmen , for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must fill a pool. Lord Bacon, Essay 8. The greatest works and foundations have been from childless men,... | |
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It is 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 the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children. 
