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" Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man... "
Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 37
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...him jealous. Wives are young mens Miftrefles, Companions for middle Age, and old mens Nurfes •, fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he he was reputed one of die wifemen, that made anfwer to the qmeftion i When a man fhouldi mawy .? A...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 63

Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pages
...fame fenfe : " Wives are young men's miftreffes, companions for middleage, and old men's nurfes ; fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone.' If Holinflied muft be introduced, in the fame quotation quarry is found, which does not mean...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 646 pages
...fame fenfe : " Wives are young men's miftrefles, companions for middle age, and old men's nurfes ; fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." MALONE. * Sbo-iiid like a rebel's -whore :] I fupppfe the meaning is, that fortune, while ftie fmilcd...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pages
...goodness, " Be like our wan-anted quarrel." Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense: " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Maione. 7 Show'd like a rehel's vihore ;] I suppose the meaning is, that fortune, while she smiled...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pages
...quarrel, as the text is now regulated. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense : " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone. 7 Show'd like a rehel's vihore :] I suppose the meaning is, that fortune, while she smiled...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...quarrel, as the text is now regulated. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a num may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone. 7 Show'd like a rehel's whore :] I suppose...
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The Harleian miscellany; or, A collection of ... pamphlets and ..., Volume 3

Harleian miscellany - 1809 - 592 pages
...water into wine ; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife...
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The Harleian Miscellany: A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and ..., Volume 3

1809 - 610 pages
...water into wine; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...example. It is one of the best bonds of charity and obedience in the wife, if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found in some writer^ whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with...
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Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ...

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young mens mistresses ; companions for middle age ; and old mens nurses. So as a man may have a -quarrel...
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