...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. BOLDNESS. — Boldness is ever blind : for it soeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore it is...

...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. BOLDNESS. — Boldness is ever blind : for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore it is...

...insomuch that we see a nephew sometimes resembleth an uncle, or a kinsman, more than his own parents, as the blood happens. Let parents choose betimes the...for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D, at the end of the Essays. childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married...

...bought. The most thriftie is often the father of the most forlorne." " Certainly," says Lord Bacon, " the best works and of greatest merit for the public...affection and means, have married and endowed the public." Mr. Boyd may be taken into the class of the "childless men," and for hia beneficent acts, though not...

...than ordinary risk as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped...

...than ordinary risk, as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — ' He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.' Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped...

...suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo : [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly a the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless...

...suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo : [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly 2 the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless...

...brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIIl. OF MAERIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly s the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless...

...expenses of a family are also hindrances to devotion and to charity. It is observed by Lord Bacon that " the best works and of greatest merit for the public,...affection and means, have married and endowed the public." He adds, with reference to the clergy, that " a single life doth well with churchmen ; for charity...