 | John Lingard - Anglo-Saxons - 1810 - 570 pages
...from the (80) " He that hath wife and children," saith Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to " great enterprises either...virtue or mischief. Certainly the " best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have pro" ceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works,...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...disinherited. ©f JWarrtafltf airtr jingle .HE that hath Wife and Children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason, that those that have Children, should have greatest care of future times,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...disinherited. fMarriagr antr jinglr Jrt E that hath Wife and Children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason, that those that have Children, should have greatest care of future times,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason, that those that have chjldren should have greatest care of future times ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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....affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostage? to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times, unto... | |
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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... 
