 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
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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 - 1825 - 538 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... | |
 | Ambrose Serle, Thomas Chalmers - 1829 - 316 pages
...their heart was exalted : therefore have they forgotten me." It was the good advice of a wise man : " Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." There is no doubt but that Christians, with worldly riches, may do abundance of worldly good to others;... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 pages
...of Kingscot, his memory would have come down as untarnished, as it must remain imperishable : . . ' Seek not proud riches : but such, as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.' Essay 34. Works, i. 120. Ed. Pickering. * * Non patre prseclaro, sed vita et pectore puro.' HOR. f... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 pages
...constantly adhered, his memory would have come down as untarnished, as it must remain imperishable : . . ' Seek not proud riches : but such, as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." Essay 34. Works, i. 120. Ed. Pickering. -f- ' Non patre prasclaro, sed vita et pectore puro." HOB.... | |
 | 1835 - 272 pages
...world, is the surest way to gain the greatest hap piness this present world can bestow. — LA HARPB. SEEK not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. — BACON. THE lands and houses, the goods and chattels, which the parent bequeaths to his child in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1838 - 174 pages
... I 0 WITHOUT WINGS, OB *l THE CLEVELAND FAMILY. o,e > BY; MRS. SEBA SMITH. T Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get...soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. BOSTON: LORD BACOK. GEORGE W. LIGHT, 1 CORNHILL. NEW YORK :—12C Fulton Sircet. 1838. THE NEW YORK... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches ? 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. " He that hasteth to be rich shall not be innocent... | |
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