| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the " best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have pro" ceeded from the unmarried... | |
| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...disinherited. İf JWarrtafltf airtr jingle .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... | |
| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have . proceeded from the unmarried... | |
| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
| 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 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 of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE * ^J 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... | |
| Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...argument for the celibacy of the clergy: " 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 the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried... | |
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