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
 | S. Morris Engel - 2001 - 442 páginas
...opinion — not an argument. The same is true of the following oft-quoted aphorism of Francis Bacon: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprise, either of virtue or mischief. Rather than offering reasons why, in his view, women and... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2001 - 424 páginas
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 | Rosalind Fergusson - 2002 - 420 páginas
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 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 páginas
...However, in Of Marriage and Single Life Bacon's support of marriage is rather more equivocal. He writes, 'He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.'59 It becomes clear that marriage is a form of social control more suited to some social... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 páginas
...SINGLE LIFE HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages0 to fortune; for they are impediments0 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 men; which0 both in affection"... | |
 | B. G. Lovejoy - 2003 - 296 páginas
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 | Larisa V Shavinina - 2003 - 1202 páginas
...still a harmful intrusion is having a family life. Francis Bacon (1597/1942) put the problem this way: 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... | |
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