 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 childless...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Pàgina 36per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1848 - 722 pàgines
...57.) It was, probably, the consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pàgines
...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...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from |the "unmarried or childless... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pàgines
...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...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from (the unmarried or childless men... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. c {L best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pàgines
...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SÄHE. — He that hath wife and children-, hath given hostages...; for they are impediments to great enterprises,' cither of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pàgines
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited, VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pàgines
...fortunate; but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pàgines
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. " best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men... | |
 | World - 1856 - 70 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 628 pàgines
...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... | |
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