 Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Pàgina 37per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pàgines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous....young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, und old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pàgines
...never do if she find him jealous. 2 A jealous Love lights his torch from the firebrand of the Furies. 3 Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses; so a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. 4 Marriage is the best state for a man in general,... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 pàgines
...part of the arms and legs not exceeding a man's thumb." Lord Bacon, in his Essays, observes, that " wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The author of Hudibras says : " Love is a 6re that bums and sparkles, In man as nat'ially as in charcoals,... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 pàgines
...part of the arms and legs not exceeding a man's thumb." Lord Bacon, in his Essays, observes, that " wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The author of Hudibras says : " Love is a fire that burns and sparkles, In man as nat'rally as in charcoals,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pàgines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of cKastîty and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives arc young men's mistresses, companions for middle ag§ijndold men's nurses; so as a man may have aqnarreTtb... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 pàgines
...obedience in the wife if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. 1 Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.' The last degrading sentence is found in some writ«, whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pàgines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous....; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he iwill : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question when a man should... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pàgines
...find him Jealous. Wives are young Men's Miftrefles ; Companions for middle Age ; and old Men's Nurfes. So as a Man may have a Quarrel to marry, when he will. But yet, he was reputed one of the wife Men, that made Anfwer to the Queftion ; When a Man mould marry ? A Young Man not yet, an Elder... | |
 | Henry G. Dalton - 1855 - 552 pàgines
...much subsequent discontent on the social community. If, as Lord Bacon has it in his profound essays, " wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses," it must be apparent, that to seek such ties among the rude natives, or the uncivilised African slaves,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pàgines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel 2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question... | |
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