 THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the...  Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy - Page 38by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory a, merit, and noble works, are proper to men : and surely...proceeded from childless men, which have sought to 10 express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed ; so the care of posterity... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 pages
...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lookers-on many times see more than the gamesters. » Others are remarkable by their images, at once... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 pages
...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lookers-on many times see more than the gamesters. Others are remarkable by their images, at once large... | |
 | Wayland Farries Vaughan - 1928 - 340 pages
...inferiority, the creative efforts of the individual are sublimated into the love of work. Bacon observes that "the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...their minds, where those of their bodies have failed." 1T To this category belong such men as Ben Jonson, Dryden, Addison, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith,... | |
 | Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis - 1928 - 354 pages
...that you discover the best plurality of worlds. " Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death": thus Bacon. Of the increase in the cares of life, the modern parent can speak at length; he knows he... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...she comes out large and healthy. Ibid., VII, 47 CHILDREN sweeten labours; but they make Misfortunes more bitter: they increase the Cares of Life; but they mitigate the Remembrance of Death. Bacon, E, 21. WE think our Children a Part of ourselves, though as they grow up they might very well... | |
 | Samuel Anthony Barnett - 1988 - 410 pages
...secret, and so are their griefs and fears. . . . Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter: they increase the cares of life, but...beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men.40 Adaptability and tradition The most obvious of the fundamental questions raised by sociobiological... | |
 | Simon Hillson - 1996 - 762 pages
...writing is charged with procreative imagery, but always as a metaphor for intellectual productivity: "the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...their minds, where those of their bodies have failed" (Essays, p. 19). Childless himself, at forty-five Bacon married an heiress thirty-one years his junior.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...perpetuity by generation10 is common to beasts; but memory,* merit, and noble works, are proper1 1 to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations12 have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express13 the images of their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...utter the one; Nor they will not 5 utter the other. Children sweeten Labours; But they make Misfortunes more bitter: They increase the Cares of Life; but...is common to Beasts; But Memory, Merit, and Noble workes, are proper to Men: And surely a Man shall 10 see, the Noblest workes, and Foundations, have... | |
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