Was Fransis Bacon the first Tory / Republican

MAKING BACON

I got this from the Economist today great series of quotations-

Francis Bacon, philosopher (1561–1626), Of Riches

“Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.”

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/z-business-quotations-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/wealth