 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the. elder are disinherited. OF Carriage anD Single life. HE that hath wife and children hath...hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...applied, (for the Earl of Northampton was both a bachelor and a student) Lord Bacon's observation : " he that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either to virtue or mischief 1 "." He was chancellor of the University in ifil I : he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...suetudo." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. v OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and...hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 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...children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediincuts to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...Dr. Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy: " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which, both... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...Dr. Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy : "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which, both... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - English letters - 1830 - 488 pages
...us, in one of his Essays, are " impediments to great enterprises ;" and adds, " Certainly, the beat works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." See, with reference to this subject, chapter zviii. of Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character."... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poets, English - 1830 - 482 pages
...us, in one of his Essays, are " impediments to great enterprises ;" and adds, " Certainly, the beat works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." See, with reference to this subject, chapter nriii. of Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character."... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women - 1833 - 234 pages
...out of their families, speaking of the majority. "He that hath wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." I say the same of women. But, the welfare of society is not built on extraordinary exertions ; and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 400 pages
...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, chapter xviii. of Mr. D'Israeli's work on " The Literary Character."... | |
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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. 
