 But this is excellently expressed, that it is in imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully,...  Plain Living and High Thinking: A New Year Homily - Page 31by Theodore Thornton Munger - 1897 - 61 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ohio - 1853 - 592 pages
...indifference. As a distinguished author Jiappily expresses it, " Seek not proud riches, but rather such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And this competency with vigor of body and serenity of mind — earth's first blessings belong only... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. ar hierarchies, Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | 1855 - 864 pages
...and not always in fact : for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them i but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Babirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...and not always in fact ; for, certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them, but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...and not always in fact ;. for, certainly, great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them, .but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...and not always in fact ; for, certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them, but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...imagination, and not always in fact. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. Yet have no abstract nor friarly4 contempt of them. But distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | 1862 - 582 pages
...many hoops are used." WEALTH. — It is a beautiful remark of Lord Bacon, " Seek not proud wealth ; but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And says the late William Wirt, a name that will long be illustrious in American history: "Excessive... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...and satisfied himself with the simplest food. The needy never left his mansion unrelieved, and his proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly,...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly; yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them ; but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1867 - 394 pages
...God in the heart,—the fruit of a steady and fixed purpose. " Seek not proud riches," says Bacon " but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly;" and to this we may add, such as a judicious economy may frugally save, and a Christian benevolence... | |
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