 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
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...t Prov. x. IS, xviil. 11. For certainly great riches have sold more men than they have bought out. a profound and elegant classical scholar : he had...all the mysteries of Rabbinical literature : he was Yet have no abstract nor friarly contempt of them: but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Eabirius... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 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- 23 tentedly. Yet have no abstract or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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 - 1882 - 324 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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1883 - 398 pages
...philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him, — to the extent of that sixpence. — CARLYLE. 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. — BACON. Economy is of itself a great revenue.... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1883 - 250 pages
...distribution there is no solid use of them to their owner. Seek not therefore," adds the essayist, " proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly,...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." And accordingly, in all systems of morals — Pagan, Hebrew, and Christian — liberality is esteemed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...and not always iu 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 - 1884 - 474 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 or friarly contempt of them : but distinguish, as Cicero saith well of Rabirius... | |
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