 that they commit not offices or the government of provinces to needy persons and such as are in debt; for peoples, that they allow not their rulers to be too much in want of money. PROVERB. (25.) A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a...  Works of Francis Bacon - Page 257by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
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...fear, that of all classes of the proprietors, the clergy are the most corrupt and greedy of patronage. "A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain and corrupt spring." The patronage of India is the very plague spot of the East India Company ; it is that... | |
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