 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 Bartlett - 1875 - 890 Seiten
...are incensed or crushed.1 Essay v. Of Adversity. 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. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 Seiten
...BACON : Essay VIII., Of Marriage arid 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 Seiten
...never where the elder are disinherited. VIII and 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 s from the unmarried or childless... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 Seiten
...elder are disinherited. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LITE. 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 Seiten
...disinherited. VIIL 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 - 1877 - 1014 Seiten
...disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. J HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly l the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 Seiten
...adulterer, thou darfst forswtar thyself." " He that hath я wife ai d children liaih given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." — Bacon. " Of all sighte which r-an sulten and hum» nise the heart of man, BC H90. there is rone... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 Seiten
...often-quoted sentence of Lord Bacon's : — " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." — Essay vii. Menne ought not to putte forthe their Itandes to tJicir friendes with their fyngers... | |
 | Wilhelm Gwinner - 1878 - 672 Seiten
...of marriage and single life", wo es heisst: „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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 Seiten
...AND SINGLE LTFB (1012 ¡ slightly enlarged 1625). 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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