| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pages
...quarrel, as the text is now regulated. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a num may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone. 7 Show'd like a rehel's whore :] I suppose... | |
| Great Britain - 1809 - 610 pages
...water into wine; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife... | |
| Harleian miscellany - 1809 - 592 pages
...water into wine ; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...icspect, despiseth " death and his mis-shapen and ugly forms." Remains of 6ir Walter hulegh, "i. 669. IT is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and...wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. LORD BACON. SEE whether a cage can please a bird, or whether a dog grow not fiercer with tying? What... | |
| Decoration and ornament - 1819 - 490 pages
...unfaithful, for virtue's sake and their own, nor to offend by example. It is one of the best bonds of charity and obedience in the wife, if she think her husband...companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found in some writer^ whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...are commonly loving husbands ; as was said of Ulysses, " He preferred his old wife to immortality." Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It D is one of the best bonds both of chastity and obedience in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...are commonly loving husbands ; as was said of Ulysses, " He preferred his old wife to immortality." Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It D is one of the best bonds both of chastity and obedience in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of Ulysses, "vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati." Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming...are young men's mistresses, companions for middle ago, and old men's nurses: so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 334 pages
...unfaithful for Virtue's sake and their own, nor to offend by example. It is one of the best bonds of charity and obedience in the wife if she think her husband...companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found in some writer, whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1823 - 342 pages
...unfaithful for Virtue's sake and their own, nor to offend by example. It is one of the best bonds of charity and obedience in the wife if she think her husband...companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found in some writer, whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with... | |
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