 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
 | World - 1856 - 70 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII.— OF MAERIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great 1 There is considerable justice in this remark. Children should be taught to do what is right for its... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...ESSAY VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. 1TE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to -tl fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the hest works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...BACON. 1561-1626. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. He that hath a wife and children hath given to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay 1. Of Studies. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...ESSAY VIII. OF MAEEIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. r TTE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to -Ll fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises,...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 - 1858 - 812 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...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly a the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1857 - 662 páginas
...fever,' and anxious to return to his family. " He that hath wife and children,'' says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Men under such bonds are peculiarly unfitted for the chequered life of a Santa Fe trader. The domestic... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 páginas
...the beft Works, and of greateft Merit for the Public, have proceeded from the unmarried or Childlefs Men ; which, both in Affection and Means have married and endowed the Public. Yet it were great Reafon that thofe that have Children fhould have greateft Care of future Times ;... | |
 | James Grant - 1858 - 426 páginas
...for sale. CHAPTER IV. LADY MAGDALENE'S DEATH. " HE that hath a wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or of mischief :" but the future life of Montrose proved the fallacy of this aphorism. In those days,... | |
 | James Grant - 1853 - 424 páginas
...for sale. CHAPTER IV. LADY MAGDALENE'S DEATH. " HE that hath a wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or of mischief :" but the future life of Montrose proved the fallacy of this aphorism. In those days,... | |
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