...qualification of the main theme, generated by employing a central device of this style - antithesis: for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Then the first reflection: This outrageous 'certainty' is amplified by three pairings which categorize...

...Zee called her son Eddie. Jesse called him Tim. Frank James was often heard to quote Francis Bacon: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Yet the same year Frank, at age twenty-nine, married beautiful seventeen-year-old Annie Ralston. She...

...deal with naval and coastal matters. 3 MS torn. 4 Bacon, Essays ('Of Marriage and the Single Life'), 'He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...for they are impediments to great enterprises...' 5 P (who resigned from the Secretaryship of the Admiralty in May 1679, and was living with Hewer) had...

...of pride; which did not vest itself so much in her own person, as in that of her family. THACKERAY 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. FRANCIS BACON "A...

...choices of his title as an opposition between the states of restraint and freedom: "He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune;...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Consequently "the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain selfpleasing...

...anything without" (W 1:124). In this sentiment he was akin to Sir Francis Bacon, who asserted that "He that hath Wife and Children, hath given Hostages...Fortune; For they are Impediments, to great Enterprises. . . . Certainly, the best Workes, and of greatest Merit for the Publike, have proceeded from the unmarried,...

...He didn't just appear. I felt him arriving. He was moving alongside me for awhile before he spoke. "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." He sounded understanding about it, even forgiving. "Is that Proverbs?" "Francis Bacon," he said. "He...