 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Biography & Autobiography - 1859
...testaments and executorships, (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, " testamenta et orbus tamquam indagine , capi,") it is yet worse, by how much men submit themselves...sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must he set flying to bring in more. Men leave their riches either to their kindred, or to the public ;... | |
 | 1859
...and other servile conditions, may be ranked among the most despicable. 1859] Deeds of Kindness. 235 Be not penny-wise : riches have wings and sometimes they fly away of themselves ; and sometimes they must be set flying' to bring in more. Men leave their riches either to their kindred... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862
...Лгогспе. BICHES-Use ot Believe not much them that seem to despise riches ; for they .Icspise thorn that despair of them; and none worse when they come...sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. Baco*. Riches, like insects, while conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season Sy.... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography & Autobiography - 1862 - 715 pages
...come to poverty ; it is good, theiefore, to guard adventures with certainties that may uphold losses Believe not much them that seem to despise riches...when they come to them. Be not penny-wise : riches bave wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves; sometimes they must be set flying to bring in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864
...testaments and executorships,' (as Tacitus saith of Senecca, ' Testamenta et orbos tanquam indagiue capi,'5) it is yet worse, by how much men submit themselves...come to them. Be not penny-wise ; riches have wings, ami sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be i Chapmen. Purcluvsers. ' Fair Diomede,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley - 1864
...testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi^) it is yet worse ; by how much men submit themselves...despair of them ; and none worse when they come to them.1 Be not penny-wise ; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Biography & Autobiography - 1867 - 426 pages
...worse, by how much men submit them[19] selves to meaner persons than in service. Believe not much of them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them; and none worse [18.] Testaments: Synonyme? Testamenta: ' Wills and childless persons were caught [by him] as though... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1868 - 641 pages
...testaments and executorships,' (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, 'Testameuta et orbos tauquam indagine capi") it is yet worse, by how much men submit themselves...they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be took upon him to broke for him in such a manner as was never precedented by any.' — Proceedings in... | |
 | RICHARD WHATELY - 1868
...testaments and executorships,' (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, 'Testamenta et orbos tanquam indagine capi'6) it is yet worse, by how much men submit themselves...them ; and none worse when they come to them. Be not penny- wise ; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - History - 1868 - 343 pages
...testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, ' Testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi), it is yet worse, by how much men submit themselves to meaner persons than in service." — Lord Bacon, Essay 34. greatest men in Rome to be slaves to Cethegus, a person not the most respectable,... | |
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Believe not much them that seem to despise riches ; for they despise them that despair of them ; and none worse, when they come to them. Be not pennywise ; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying... 
