 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...Younger brothers are commonly fortunate ; but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and...unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and 1 Sorteth] Conduces. * So] Provided. See p. 5, note I. 3 Apply themselves, &c.] Accommodate themselves... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1873 - 798 pages
...children, Bacon tells us, in one of hu Essays, are "impediments to great enterprise!:" and adds, " Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." Sec, with reference to this subject, Mr. D'Israeli'i work en " The Literary Character," chapter xvlii.... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...the rniiid may have a special receipt.! OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE (1612 ; slightly enlarged 1625). He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...childless men ; which, both in affection and means, * Curiously (Lat. cura, care), carefully, with eager attention.— Arguments, subjects, courses of... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. Essay xvi. Atheism. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil... | |
 | Plato - 1875 - 530 pages
...convinced Alcibiades, and made him ashamed of his mean and miserable 1 Cp. Bacon's Essays, 8. — ' Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for...affection and means have married and endowed the public.' life. Socrates at one time seemed about to fall in love with him ; and he thought that he would thereby... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 pages
...misfortunes more bitter: they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. A little philosophy... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.1 Essay v. Of Adversity. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but... | |
 | 1875 - 780 pages
...world. What anxiety, un fitness for any business save guarding that rain-li!,-M ' Lord Bacon says that he that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. It is' precisely the same with the man who owns a costly silk umbrella. Does he go to the play or the... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1875 - 504 pages
...may please his wife ; " an opinion quite similar to that which Lord Bacon pronounced when he said : " Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, who both in affection and means have married and endowed the public." Given two men with equal desire... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII and HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded s from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed... | |
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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... 
