 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...  Slavery and the War: A Historical Essay - Page 48by Henry Darling - 1863 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...forwardness; for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. OF I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...actions ; therefore extrordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion. . LORD BACOW. I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is- better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue: it cannot be spared nor left behind, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many com miserable persons. OF RICHES. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...forwardness ; for besides the dishonour, it is guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. ©f I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, Impedimenta ; for as the baggage is to an army, so are Riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...forwardness ; for besides the dishonour, it is guiltiness of blood of many commiscrable persons. 1 CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, Impedimenta ; for as the baggage is to an army, so are Riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. . . .. . '• •.. ••• ' '• i XXXIV. OF RICHES. I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta. 'For as the baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It ; cannot be spared, .nor left behind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...besides Hie dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. XXXV. OF RICHES. 1 CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, "impedimenta;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons. XXXV. OF RICHES. I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, " impedimenta ;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue ; it cannot be spared nor left behind,... | |
 | William Phillips - Finance, Personal - 1824 - 44 pages
...riches, but such as thou mayst get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. " I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as baggage is to an army, so are riches to virtue. It cannot be spared or left behind, but it hindereth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...head, and all that he said was, Sir, I cannot help myself." (a) In his Essay on Riches, vol. i. 119, he says, " I cannot call riches better than the baggage...of virtue ; the Roman word is better, ' impedimenta ;' the mind, he lived, not as a philosopher ought to have lived, but as a nobleman had been accustomed... | |
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