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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. 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 32
von Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 409 Seiten
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 Seiten
...at Home, At Paris, or Madrid, his home. DENIIAM. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. * * * The most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 Seiten
...least of it. 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...
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Treasury of choice quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 Seiten
...Polity. Book \. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. TTE that hath a wife and children hath given -*- -*- hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. * There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees....
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1872 - 864 Seiten
...men's minds about to religion. Essay xvi. Atheism. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue pr mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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...
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Charing cross, a monthly magazine of general literature. New ser ..., Band 1

W J Morgan - 1874 - 746 Seiten
...Marriage and Single Life/ declares "He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortunes, for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief." " A man in my country," quoth James Kelly, " coming out of his house with tears on his cheeks, was...
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Masterpieces in English Literature, and Lessons in the English Language ...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 Seiten
...AND SINGLE LITE (1612 ; Blightly enlarged 162.1)). 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...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 Seiten
...men's minds about to religion. Essay xvi. Atheism. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil...
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The Newtonian, Bände 1-2

Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 Seiten
...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. A little philosophy...
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Freemason's Monthly, Band 6

1875 - 780 Seiten
...guarding that rain-li!,-M ' Lord Bacon says that he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. It is' precisely the same with the man who owns a costly silk umbrella. Does he go to the play or the...
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