 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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:...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches, there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the inarch ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory ; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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,...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great Riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution, the rest is but conceit : so... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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,...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great Riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution, the rest is but conceit : so... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...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...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit; so... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...bag-gage 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,...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. So... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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;...of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is DO real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit; so... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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...march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or diaturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use,, except it be in the distribution ; the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...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...the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the vietory ; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but... | |
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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... 
