He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Works - Page 266by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
| Michael Williams - 1998 - 262 pages
...consanguinity that bind families together. They are also a statement of fact, as expressed in Bacon's essay "Of Marriage and Single Life": "He that hath wife...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Here are some of the ways that separating spouses can find their children "impediments to enterprises".... | |
| Bert Almon - 1998 - 490 pages
...title chosen has exactly the right emphasis. The source is Lord Bacon's essay "Of Marriage and the Single Life": "He that hath wife and children hath...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." At first the title makes us think of the hostages themselves: Ben's son, Anthony, and wife, Cathy.... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self'. 721 Essays 'Of Marriage and the these so lonely and poor of old. 722 Essays 'Of Marriage and the Single Life' Wives are young men's mistresses, companlons for middle... | |
| Miriam E. David - 1998 - 228 pages
...important than the job. I realize that men down the ages have faced similar obstacles. Francis Bacon writes 'he that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.' But men usually manage to fit the family round the career if only because they can earn more. It is... | |
| Eugene Ehrlich - 1998 - 340 pages
...fortune here meaning "fate." English essayist Francis Bacon (1561—1626) took note of man's lot in "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." être malade à crever (aytra mah-LAHD ah kruu-VAY) feel like death warmed over Best translated as... | |
| Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 pages
...cowardly. Voltaire French writer Love hath made thee a tame snake. William Shakespeare English playwright He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon English philosopher The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence... | |
| William Gerber - 1998 - 148 pages
...English writers during and immediately after the Age of Elizabeth. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) wrote: (170) "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprise." In addition, in a poem on human life. Bacon expressed the following pejorative viewpoint... | |
| Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 pages
...Bacon's beginnings: "Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight"; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Charles Lamb, as clear-eyed and candid as any writer in the language but misread as sentimental, sank... | |
| Juliette Huxley - 1999 - 424 pages
...Single Life," an essay by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, and essayist: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." // vaut mietix . . . : Better to chew on misery than on nonexistence. Is the secret self meant to be... | |
| Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 pages
...place?" He was not personally brave, and he had a large and vulnerable family. As Bacon reminds us, "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or of mischief."1 (It is sobering to recall that Bacon played a villainous role in the prosecutions of... | |
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