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... Notable Thoughts about Women: A Literary Mosaic - Seite 32von Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 409 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Josiah Gregg - 1845 - 342 Seiten
...to return to his family. " He that hath wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to 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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 Seiten
...those first given in the collection of 1612 : — 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 hest works, and of greatest merit for the puhlic, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
| 1848 - 722 Seiten
...sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "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 the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the... | |
| 1848 - 1390 Seiten
...sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : " 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 the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 Seiten
...disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. 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... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 Seiten
...mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — 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... | |
| Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 Seiten
...disinherited, VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* 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 * See note... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 Seiten
...disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 Seiten
...disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
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