 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 - Strana 331848Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 str.
...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SÄHE. — He that hath wife and children-, hath given hostages...; for they are impediments to great enterprises,' cither of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 str.
...LIFE.* HE that hath wife and childrenhath given ïo34~tagesto fortune; for they are irnpecfimSrifS^o ed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of greatest merit for the publii , have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D, »i the end of the... | |
 | Joseph Leech - 1850 - 284 str.
...best works and of greatest merit, for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childish men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public." And again — "A single life doth well with Churchmen, for charity will hardly water the ground when... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 str.
...best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which ' , both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times; unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 str.
...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 * See note D, at the end of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 str.
...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 - 1854 - 894 str.
...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. " greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in... | |
 | Zacharie Boyd - 1855 - 272 str.
...best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public." Mr. Boyd may be taken into the class of the "childless men," and for hia beneficent acts, though not... | |
 | World - 1856 - 70 str.
...than ordinary risk, as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — ' He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.' Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped... | |
 | 1856 - 628 str.
...than ordinary risk as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped... | |
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