 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 37by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 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. Johnson's emendation is probably right ; but it should be recollected that quarry means not... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 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....are young men's mistresses, companions for middle ago, and old men's nurses: so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 338 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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 334 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...Henry Vllt, Ready in gybes, quick answered, saucy, and As quarreloui as the weazel. /./. Cumbeline. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. Bacon. Cholerick and quarrelsome persons will engage... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 474 pages
...obedience in the wife if she think hur husband wide, which she will never do if she find him jealous. 1 Wives are young men's mistresses, 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... | |
 | 1836 - 344 pages
...made answer to the question, when a man should marry ? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one... | |
 | Bolton CORNEY - 1838 - 280 pages
...having been written by one Francis Bacon before the said Lady Grace Gethin was born. $}mof fail not." " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." — Reliquiae Gethinianae. " The last degrading sentence is found in some writer, whose name I cannot... | |
 | Bolton Corney - 1838 - 280 pages
...having been written by one Francis Bacon before the said Lady Grace Gethin was born. ?|mof fail not." " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." — Reliquiae Gethinianae. " The last degrading sentence is found in some writer, whose name I cannot... | |
 | Samuel Hayes Elliot - 1838 - 274 pages
...circumstances of fortune or beauty. These may still love in spite of adversity or sickness. Spectator. Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. Lord Bacon. The third autumn since Mr. Ainsworth settled at Rolling Ridge was now approaching. The... | |
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