 You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read that we are commanded to forgive our friends. But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to...  Recollections of a Chaperon - Seite 219von Arabella Jane Sullivan - 1833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 412 Seiten
...(saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also f1 And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which other- v' wise would heal and do well. Public revenges2 are for the most part fortunate ; as that for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 Seiten
...we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate ; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of... | |
 | William Theobald - 1909 - 418 Seiten
...green," applied to a wound, is also used in a similar sense by Bacon in his Essay on Revenge : — "This is certain that a man that studieth revenge...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." It is also a classical usage, as Euripides applies the term " chloros," green or fresh, to blood :... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 Seiten
...(saith he) take good at God's hands, and not lie content to take evil also? And so of friends in a sh of such Public revenges are for the most part fortunate;30 as that for the death of Cassar; for the death of... | |
 | 1911 - 208 Seiten
...saith he, "take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also?" And so of friends hi a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate: as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of... | |
 | 1918 - 184 Seiten
...SHAKESPEARE. April 9 Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, d. 1626. Revenge is a kind of wild justice. . . . This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Essay on Revenge, by FRANCIS BACON. It does not so much matter how an injury is done, as how it is... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 Seiten
...we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Caesar; for the death of... | |
 | Richard H. Mulliner - 1920 - 396 Seiten
...speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain. — Rousseau. REVENGE A man that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green; which otherwise would heal and do well. — Lord Bacon. By taking a revenge, a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing over it he is superior. —... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 Seiten
...we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also? And so of friends in a proportion. This is certain, that a man that studieth...wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Public revenges are for the most part fortunate; as that for the death of Csesar; for the death of... | |
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