 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
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...circumstances, ere one comes to the matter, is wearisome; to use none at all, is blunt. 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 or left behind, but... | |
 | Charles F. Steel - 1888 - 312 pages
...Promus, Note 67. Divitiae impedimenta virtutis. (The baggage of virtue.) Bacorfs exemplification — " I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue (the Roman is better, 'impedimenta'), for as the baggage is to an army, so riches is to virtue." Illustration... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...Benevolence, Character, Competency, Contentment, Honesty, Misers, Money, Poverty, Self-Sacrifice, Wealth. 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... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...to have not only planned, but carried through, the for honour and pood actions. . . . I cannot pall riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, ' impedimenta,' for as the baggagu is to an amir, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 pages
...malonnn majora entnt." 115, Plutus, the God of Riches, of which Lord Bacon says in his Essays : — " 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...Solomon, I am fure, faith, ' It is the glory of a man to pafs by an offence.' (E/ays, 1625, iv.) r 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, fo is riches to Virtue. It cannot be fpared nor left behind, but... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...circumstances,8 ere one come to the matter, is wearisome ; to use none at all, is blunt. 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 riches2 to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Conduct of life - 1894 - 194 pages
...spoke merely from a spiritual plane in his treatment of practical themes orthought, says emphatically: "I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, impedimenta [hindrances] ; for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue: it cannot be spared, nor left... | |
 | Efraim Liljeqvist - Ethics - 1898 - 394 pages
...etiam non invitata, nil officit quominus virtus propter se quoque expetatur. VI, 460; Ess., 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, but... | |
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