 | 1848 - 722 Seiten
...57.) It was, probably, the consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...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 Cooper - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SÄHE. — He that hath wife and children-, hath given hostages...; for they are impediments to great enterprises,' cither of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 Seiten
...LIFE.* HE that hath wife and childrenhath given ïo34~tagesto fortune; for they are irnpecfimSrifS^o great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the publii , have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D, »i the end of the Essays. childless men;... | |
 | Joseph Leech - 1850 - 284 Seiten
...be filled and a back to be clothed, behind her. "Certainly," says Bacon, in one of his short essays, "the best works and of greatest merit, for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childish men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public." And again —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 Seiten
...Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited, VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* HE that hath wife and...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... | |
 | Census office - 1854 - 222 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - 1855 - 544 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | World - 1856 - 70 Seiten
...than 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...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... | |
 | 1856 - 628 Seiten
...than 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...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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He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 
