 I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. 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...  Literary and professional works - Page 198by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the inarch ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth...the distribution; the rest is but conceit,; so saith Solomon, " Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner but the sight of it... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth...be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. IBID. BE not penny wise; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, and some* times... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth...the distribution, the rest is but conceit : so saith Solomon : " Where much is, there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner, but the sight of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth...the distribution, the rest is but conceit : so saith Solomon : " Where much is, there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner, but the sight of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth...the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. So saith Solomon ; Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is DO real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit; so saith Solomon, "Where much... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or diaturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use,,...distribution ; the rest is but conceit ; so saith Solomon, " Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner but the sight of it... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the vietory ; of great riches there is no real use, except it be...distribution ; the rest is but conceit ; so saith Solomon, " Where much is, there are many to consume it ; and what hath the owner but the sight of it... | |
 | William Phillips - Finance, Personal - 1824 - 44 pages
...an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared or left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 loseth or disturbeth...distribution ; the rest is but conceit ; so saith Solomon, " Where much " is, there are many to consume it ; and what hath the " owner but the sight... | |
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