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 2731862Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 páginas
...beginnings: "Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight"; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Charles Lamb, as clear-eyed and candid as any writer in the language but misread as sentimental, sank... | |
| Juliette Huxley - 1999 - 424 páginas
...Single Life," an essay by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, and essayist: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." // vaut mietix . . . : Better to chew on misery than on nonexistence. Is the secret self meant to be... | |
| Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 páginas
...place?" He was not personally brave, and he had a large and vulnerable family. As Bacon reminds us, "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or of mischief."1 (It is sobering to recall that Bacon played a villainous role in the prosecutions of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 páginas
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. 8. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages* to fortune; for they are impediments14 to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 páginas
...Accidentals. 33-4 Schoole-masters] Schoole-ma-lsters 25 [F2V] Of Marriage And Single Life. VIII. 5 He that hath Wife and Children, hath given Hostages to...Fortune; For they are Impediments, to great Enterprises, 1-3 Of Marriage And Single Life.] essay not in 97a-12a 4 VIIL] 22. either of Vertue, or Mischiefe.... | |
| Marjorie Swann - 2001 - 300 páginas
...obligations on men's careers. Bacon begins his essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" by observing, "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...in affection and means have married and endowed the public."63 Similarly, in the essay "Of Parents and Children," Bacon stresses the drawbacks of begetting... | |
| Will Durant - 2002 - 351 páginas
...dissimulation is necessary to success, if not to civilization. Love is a madness, and marriage is a noose. "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises." He agreed with the popes about clerical celibacy: "A single life doth well with churchmen, for charity... | |
| S. Morris Engel - 2001 - 442 páginas
...opinion — not an argument. The same is true of the following oft-quoted aphorism of Francis Bacon: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprise, either of virtue or mischief. Rather than offering reasons why, in his view, women and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 páginas
...SINGLE LIFE HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages0 to fortune; for they are impediments0 to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief....have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men; which0 both in affection" and means0 have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason0... | |
| Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 páginas
...in Of Marriage and Single Life Bacon's support of marriage is rather more equivocal. He writes, 'He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.'59 It becomes clear that marriage is a form of social control more suited to some social... | |
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