 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
 | 1851 - 588 páginas
...to great enterprises ;" and that " certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the pnblie, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men, which, both in affection and rvsson, have married and endowed the public."1 But these were the words of a bachelor, and, perhaps,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 páginas
...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...for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D, at the end of the Essays. childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times;... | |
 | Census office - 1854 - 222 páginas
...in the world are most efficiently performed by these classes ; and although the proposition, that " the best works and of greatest merit for the public...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men " may not be absolutely true, as it is put by Bacon, they have unquestionably contributed their full... | |
 | Great Britain. Census Office - 1854 - 234 páginas
...in the world are most efficiently performed by these classes ; and although the proposition, that " the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried ov childless men " may not be absolutely true, as it is put by Bacon, they have unquestionably contributed... | |
 | Zacharie Boyd - 1855 - 272 páginas
...bought. The most thriftie is often the father of the most forlorne." " Certainly," says Lord Bacon, " the best works and of greatest merit for the public...affection and means, have married and endowed the public." Mr. Boyd may be taken into the class of the "childless men," and for hia beneficent acts, though not... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1855 - 544 páginas
...bringing with them their families to settle in this wilderness. Lord Bacon has complacently observed, that "the best works and of greatest merit for the public,...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." 3 Weston's colony were of the same opinion. Yet so far were they from prospering in their solitude,... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1855 - 544 páginas
...bringing with them their families to settle in this wilderness. Lord Bacon has complacently observed, that "the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men."3 Weston's colony were of the same opinion. Yet so far were they from prospering in their solitude,... | |
 | 1856 - 628 páginas
...ordinary risk as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped... | |
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