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
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 Seiten
...the elder are disinherited. VIII ;$larriag;e antr 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 5 from the unmarried or childless... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 Seiten
...of it. ESSAY 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... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...and bosoms. Dedication to the Essays, ed. 1615. 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 viii. of Marriage and Single Life. Rich soils are often to be weeded. Letter of Expottulatim... | |
| William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 Seiten
...Marriage and Single Life, where he says : — " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Hothom, Walter, poet (temp, fifteenth century), was author of biblia Veraißcata. Hotspur, Henry Percy.... | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer - 1881 - 182 Seiten
...Essay on marriage and single life,"—who says: " 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 preceded from the unmarried, or childless... | |
| 1881 - 578 Seiten
...are disinherited. OP MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages ind of the s the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 Seiten
...elder are disinherited. OF MAKBIAGE 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... | |
| Philip Stewart Robinson - 1881 - 314 Seiten
...humanity — make always the R best public servants. " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." And again, " Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." The dog, therefore,... | |
| 1914 - 652 Seiten
..."Marriage and hanging go by destiny," says one; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief," writes another; while others exclaim with fervent feeling, "Marriage is a desperate thing," "Marriage... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 Seiten
...disinherited. v 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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