 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
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1877 - 112 pages
...once did sell the lion's skin while the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. .LESSON XXIII. 1. Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully and leave contentedly. — Bacon. 2. Tell me with whom you go, and I will tell you what you do. 3. Honor and shame from no... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1877 - 324 pages
...behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory," "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." " Believe not much them that seem to despise riches,... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 pages
...one who has acquired a competency. Lord Bacon, one of the wisest of modern philosophers, advises : " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." If wealth were the true or only measure of success in business, a rich robber would seem more worthy... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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...justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave con- 25 tentedly. Yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...for, certainly, great Riches have solds more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud Riches,7 but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt3 of them ; but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...for, certainly, great Riches have sold6 more men than they have bought out. Seek not proud Riches,7 but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly ; yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt3 of them ; but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - 416 pages
...that 'walketh uprightly.'" — Spk. Com. e Dr. Cheever. a Pr. xx. 6 ; 2 Ш. xii. 15, xxii. 7. Ь " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." — I¡ord2iucon. "I will study more how to give account of my little, than how to make it more." —... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...tree." — George Herbert, KEY-NOTES. " When all is holiday, there are no holidays." — Charles Lamb. " 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." — Lord Bacon. " On ne vaut que ce qu'on veut... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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... | |
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