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
| 1885 - 786 Seiten
...Self-denial for the Cause — Personal Appearance. " 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... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...Margaret Mead (1901-1978) American anthropologist He that hath wife and children have given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Man is the head of the family, woman the neck... | |
| R. A. Ochse, R. Ochse - 1990 - 318 Seiten
...get in the way of creative (and other) enterprise: 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 unmarried or childless men.... | |
| Josiah Gregg - 1954 - 526 Seiten
...anxious 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."1 Men under such bonds are peculiarly unfitted for the chequered life of a Santa Fe trader.... | |
| Will Durant - 1965 - 736 Seiten
...the ground where it must first fill a pool. . . . He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."32 Bacon seems to have worked too hard to have had time for love, and perhaps he never quite... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 Seiten
...26, p. 247 (1939, reprinted 1970). Marriage 1163 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... | |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 Seiten
...love, yet make it keep quarter." "He that hath wife and children," wrote Bacon, "hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters and best servants. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 Seiten
...The Ни/тип Condition, pt. 5, ch. 33 (1958), 3 He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Marriage and Single... | |
| Heinrich F. Plett - 1993 - 414 Seiten
...con side. The next statement in the essay begins, somewhat grudgingly, to move toward the pro side: "for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." The essay proceeds through a thicket of prolepses, in which pro and con arguments are lifted directly... | |
| Anna G. Jónasdóttir - 1994 - 328 Seiten
...dissuading men from marrying and having children since: 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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