 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 273 pages
...Testaments and Executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca; Testamenta et Orbos, tanqnam Indagine capi /) It is yet worse ; By how much Men submit themselves, to Meaner Persons, then in Sen'ice. Beleeve not much them, that seeme to despise Riches; For they despise them, that despaire... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1902
...conditions, they may be placed amongst the worst. As for fishing for testaments and execu. torships, 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 set... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Literary Criticism - 1902
...Thus he takes the Scriptural proverb about riches making themselves wings, and adds a new thought : ' B W The idea 'Knowledge is power,' which Bacon repeatedly expresses, is to be found, it should be noted,... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - 1903 - 302 pages
...Coleridge. 38. Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Colton. 39. Be not penny-wise ; riches have wings, and sometimes...sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. Lord Bacon. 40. The gaining of wealth is a work of great labor ; the possession, a source of great... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Literary Criticism - 1904 - 333 pages
...the scriptural proverb about riches making themselves wings, Bacon grafted the practical wisdom : ' Riches have wings and sometimes they fly away of themselves,...sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.' Equally penetrating are these aphoristic deliverances :— ' Some books are to be tasted, others to... | |
 | Sidney Lee - 1904
...the scriptural proverb about riches making themselves wings, Bacon grafted the practical wisdom: ' Riches have wings and sometimes they fly away of themselves,...sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more." Equally penetrating are these aphoristic deliverances:—' Some books are to be tasted, others to be... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1904 - 337 pages
...the scriptural proverb about riches making themselves wings, Bacon grafted the practical wisdom: ' Riches have wings and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they most be set flying to bring in more.' Equally penetrating are these aphoristic deliverances: — '... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 318 pages
...and executorships (as Tacitus0 saith of Seneca,0 "Testamenta0 et orbos tanquam indagine capi"), it 10 is yet worse; by how much men submit themselves to...for they despise them that despair of them; and none worse0 when they come to them. Be not penny-wise ; 15 riches have wings,0 and sometimes they fly away... | |
 | 1905
...thought the fountain-head from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. — MILTON. Believe not much them that seem to despise riches;...despair of them; and none worse when they come to them. — BACON. There are some whom the lightning of fortune blasts, only to render holy. Amidst all that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 293 pages
...testaments and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Seneca, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi,}1 it is yet worse ; by how much men submit themselves...riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves,2 sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. Men leave their riches either to their... | |
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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... 
