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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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