 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 291848Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1162 páginas
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 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1999 - 464 páginas
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 | Carl Woodring - 1999 - 250 páginas
...Bacon's beginnings: "Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight"; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Charles Lamb, as clear-eyed and candid as any writer in the language but misread as sentimental, sank... | |
 | Susan Sherman - 1999 - 424 páginas
...Single Life," an essay by Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, and essayist: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." // vaut mietix . . . : Better to chew on misery than on nonexistence. Is the secret self meant to be... | |
 | Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 páginas
...place?" He was not personally brave, and he had a large and vulnerable family. As Bacon reminds us, "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or of mischief."1 (It is sobering to recall that Bacon played a villainous role in the prosecutions of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 páginas
...commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. 8. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE He that hath wife and children hath given hostages* to fortune; for they are impediments14 to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of... | |
 | Fabio Cleto - 1999 - 546 páginas
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 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 páginas
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