 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...If you feed not the bodies 0 Non bene fit quod occupato 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,... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 556 pages
...friends, best masters, best servants ; but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away. A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground where it must fill a pool. It is indifferent for magistrates ; for if they be corrupt, you shall have a servant five... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 858 pages
...metaphor, but that is one which is an argument instead of a mere ornament. " A single life," he says, " doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Bacon's sententious gravity raises a common-place to the rank of a grand philosophical axiom ; Fuller's... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...COMPARATIVE. SUPERLATIVE. Well Better Best Badly or ill Worse Worst Little Less Least Much More Most " A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." A, a numeral adjective, qualifying the noun life. It is commonly called the indefinite article. Single,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...always hest suhjects ; 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 he facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 716 pages
...married and endowed the public. . . . Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants. ... A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Seneca, it seems, was of the same opinion : "Vita conjugalis altos et generosos spiritos frangit, et... | |
 | 1848 - 1396 pages
...married and endowed the public. . . . Unmarried men are best friends, best masters', best servants. ... A single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...water the ground where it must first fill a pool." Seneca, it seems, was of the same opinion : " Vita conjugalis altos et generosos spiritos frangit,... | |
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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. 
