 HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless...  Harvard Magazine - Página 2691862Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE * ^J He that hath wife and* children hath given hostages to...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest careof future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay 7. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will leas relish the food of the soul. Nay, if you abound not above others in... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 526 páginas
...Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy: " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which, both... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1826 - 526 páginas
...Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy : "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which, both... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829
...seek to put me down, and reizn thyself. LI. He that hath wife and children, bath given Aoíím.v» lo fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Bacon. Hostility being thus suspended with France, preparation was made for war against Scotland, ffayward.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1830 - 642 páginas
...us, in one of his Essays, are " impediments to great enterprises ;" and adds, " Certainly, the beat works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." See, with reference to this subject, chapter zviii. of Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1830 - 823 páginas
...us, in one of his Essays, are " impediments to great enterprises ;" and adds, " Certainly, the beat works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." See, with reference to this subject, chapter nriii. of Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character."... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay ?• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will less relish the food of the. soul. Nay, if you abound not above others... | |
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