 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...them, and they were as cold as any stone. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626) OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE HEE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to...Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the publick, have proceeded from the unmarried or childlesse men ; which have sought eternity in memory,... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - Epigrams - 1900 - 202 pages
...Anonymous. In all eras and all climes a woman of great genius or beauty has done what she chose. Ouida. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Bacon. A woman would be in despair if Nature had formed her as fashion makes her appear. Mdlle. de... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...elige, suave & facile illud faciet Consuetude. Younger Brothers are commonly Fortunate, but seldome or never, where the Elder are disinherited. VIII....they are Impediments, to great Enterprises, either of Vertue, or Mischiefe. Certainly, the best workes, and of greatest Merit for the Publike, have proceeded... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...phrases or sentences have become proverbial. It is the essay ' Of Marriage and Single Life' that begins, conscience is his strong retreat ; Whose state can...Oppressors great. Who God doth late and early pray That ' Of Parents and Children ' has : ' Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter... | |
 | American wit and humor - 1901 - 156 pages
...found out that he wuzn'tgood for anythink he concluded he'd be a doctor. — Eugene Field. dune Eighth He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. — Bacon. June flinth The past was bad, and the future hid, its good or ill untried, O ; But the present... | |
 | Hensley Henson - 1902 - 374 pages
...well-known essay, Of Marriage and Single Life, expressed the general judgment of cultivated men : " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...affection and means have married and endowed the public. . . . A single life duth well with Churchmen, for charity mil hardly 1 Works, ii. p. 83. » Church,... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...Virtue is like precious odours, — most fragrant .when they are incensed or crushed.1 OfAdvernty. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Of Marriage and Single Life. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...phrases or sentences haie become proverbial. It is the essay ' Of Marriage and Single Life' that begins, That ' Of Parents and Children ' has : ' Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter... | |
 | William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...Scripture is the word of God.—Ecclesiastical Polity. FRANCIS BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS 1561-1626 OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE HE that hath wife and...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the hest works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men,... | |
 | R. A. Ochse, R. Ochse - Psychology - 1990 - 318 pages
...that connubial activities and their products simply get in the way of creative (and other) enterprise: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...greatest merit for the public have proceeded from unmarried or childless men. (Bacon, 1685/1980 p. 149) In contrast to Freud, theorists of a more existentialistic... | |
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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. 
