...another inconvenience, viz. ; that the chance best friends, best masters, and best servants,' and that ' The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men.' He also introduces Jeremy Taylor, as saying that '"Celibacy, like a fly...

...of marriage. ' Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, ' the best works, and of greatest merit for the publie, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married the public. * * * Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants. * * * He was reputed...

...illustrious instance to lord Verulam's remark relative to bachelors : Certainly the best works, and those of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men. All Kant's pursuits were obviously of a metaphysical or intellectual nature. He devoted himself to...

...interest. Otherwise, I had my Lord Bacon's consolation in the dictum he lays down, when he says : " Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from childless men." A still more comforting authority, however, was found in my friend Tom, the philosopher...

...essays says : " Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the publie, liaoa proceeded frnrn the unmarried or childless men : which both in affection and means, have married aiid endaieed the public ;" " unmarried men are best friends, beat masters, best servants" — i!d...

...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. of artificers maketh some small improvement of things...maketh us to stumble upon somewhat which is new : but know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who though they lead a single life,...

...children, Bacon tells us, in one of his Essays, are " Impediments to great enterprises : " and adds, " Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." See, with reference to this subject, Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character." chapter xviii....

...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII.— OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...have greatest care of future times, unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who, though they lead a single life,...

...much as the following sentiments are Lord Bacon's theology : — " He tlmt bath wife and children bath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...affection and means, have married and endowed the public A single lite dolb well with churchmen [clergymen], fur charily will hardly water the ground wbero...

...much as the following sentiments are Lord Bacon's theology : — "He that bath wife and children bath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...; which, both in affection and means, have married aud endowed the public A single lite dolb well with churchmen [clergymen], for charity will hardly...