| Wilhelm Gwinner - Philosophers - 1878 - 680 pages
...children, hath given hostages to Fortune, für they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtae or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest...in affection and means have married and endowed the publir." (Wer Weib und Kinder hat, hat dem Schicksal Geisseln gegebeu; denn sie sind Hindernisse grosser... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII ;$larriag;e antr HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded 5 from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...in 1625.) HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages1 to Fortune ; for they are impediments3 to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief....unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means3 have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason4 that those that have children... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII <®t Carriage an& Single £tte HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded 5 from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed... | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer - Philosophy - 1881 - 182 pages
...great predecessors. He loved to appeal to Bacon,— " Essay on marriage and single life,"—who says: " He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...works, and of greatest merit for the public, have preceded from the unmarried, or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have endowed the... | |
| Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women - 1881 - 420 pages
...useful had they left children to the world, but rendered it no other service. Lord Bacon says that " he that hath wife and children hath given hostages...mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit to the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means,... | |
| American wit and humor - 1914 - 652 pages
...opinions of some learned gentlemen of the old school. "Marriage and hanging go by destiny," says one; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief," writes another; while others exclaim with fervent feeling, "Marriage is a desperate thing," "Marriage... | |
| Philip Stewart Robinson - 1881 - 314 pages
...those without families — the discipline of humanity — make always the R best public servants. " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." And again, " Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." The dog, therefore,... | |
| James Copner - 1882 - 208 pages
...MAERIAGE is sometimes spoken of as a bar to success. Thus Lord Bacon says in his Essays, " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ;...mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit to the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means,... | |
| Philip Stewart Robinson - 1882 - 480 pages
...that those without families — the discipline of humanity— make always the best public servants. " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." And again, "Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." The dog, therefore,... | |
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