 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 - Pągina 37per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pągines
...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 quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pągines
...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 quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pągines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, arid old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel' to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pągines
...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 lie will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 686 pągines
...of chastity and obedience in the wife,' he quotes from the ' Reliquiae,' ' if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.' And then he adds, ' This degrading sentence is found in some writer whose name I cannot recollect.'... | |
 | 1886 - 894 pągines
...of chastity and obedience in the wife," he quotes from the " Reliquiae," " if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." And then he adds, " This degrading sentence is found in some writer whose name I cannot recollect."... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pągines
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband e a wise ma L 7 men'a THE ENGLISH ESSAYISTS. nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel* to marry when he will. But yet... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pągines
...obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise; which she will never do if she find him jealous. J Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...and old men's nurses; so as a man may have a quarrel § * Exhaust. Exhausted. t He preferred his aged wife (Penelope) to immortality. J: Jealousy is a natural... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1888 - 90 pągines
...in his essay "Of Marriage and Single Life" could find nothing higher to say of wives than that they "are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses " ? Idle to say, we are not to judge of a man's prose by his poetry. Had Bacon been indeed a poet,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 460 pągines
...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 quarrel8 to marry when ' he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the... | |
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