 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...  The American Whig Review - Página 331848Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 páginas
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay ?• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will less relish the food of the. soul. Nay, if you abound not above others... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 páginas
...out of their families, speaking of the majority. "He that hath wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men." I say the same... | |
 | Sir Harford Jones, Sir Harford Jones Brydges - 1834 - 262 páginas
...entendu, that when he received his submission, he did not hold out to him false hopes * " He that hath a wife and children, hath given hostages to " Fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises of virtue " or mischief." — BACON. of life. This is a species of glory of all others to a Turk the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 páginas
...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...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection... | |
 | 1840 - 744 páginas
...much as the following sentiments are Lord Bacon's theology : — " He tlmt bath wife and children bath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in... | |
 | 1840 - 746 páginas
...much as the following sentiments are Lord Bacon's theology : — "He that bath wife and children bath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...virtue or mischief. Certainly "the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in... | |
 | Joseph Rathborne - 1841 - 194 páginas
...seem to affirm it of themselves." This sentiment of Dr. King completely agrees with the words of Bacon :—"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1844 - 342 páginas
...fever,' and anxious to return to his family. " He that hath wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Men under such bonds are peculiarly unfitted for the chequered life of a Santa Fe trader. The domestic... | |
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