 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 140 pàgines
...old reading is quarry ; but quarrel is Holinshed's word. Bacon, in his Essay on Marriage, &c., says ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...and old men's nurses; so as a man may have a quarrel (Lat. ansa) to marry when he will.' In Latimer's Sermons are several instances of Showed like a rebel's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 552 pàgines
...quarrel; the exact opposite of damned quarrel. Bacon in his Essays uses the word in the same sense : ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.' BOSWELL. It should be recollected, however, that quarry means not only game, but also an arrow, an... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pàgines
...chastity. 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....nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.3 But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1873 - 524 pàgines
...quarrel; the exact opposite of damned quarrel. Bacon in his Essays uses the word in the same sense : ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will.' BOSWELL. It should be recollected, however, that quarry means not only game, but also an arrow, an... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 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....mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's * As they will go near to think, that they will almost think.— "Light to run away, free from impediments... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pàgines
...where it is Ithaca, not his old wife, that Ulysses is said to prefer to immortality. p. 86,1. 22. " So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will." Literally a cause of complaint; hence any cause or reason. And Fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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....age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel7 to marry when, he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the... | |
 | 1876 - 606 pàgines
...injustice to suppose that he had his mother in his mind when he wrote tkat curt passage in his Essays, ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ;' Lady Bacon, like her sisters, was a notable nurse and a strict housewife. She was by no means inclined... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pàgines
...injustice to suppose that he had his mother in his mind when he wrote that curt passage in his Essays, ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ;' Lady Bacon, like her sisters, was a notable nurse and a strict housewife. She was by no means inclined... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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....are young men's mistresses ; companions for middle ages ; and old men's nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed... | |
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