...but generally the precept is good, " Optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." 3 — Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...disinherited. VIII.— OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HB that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great 1...

...expression occurring in BACON'S essay of Marriage and Single Life, where he says : — " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Hothom, Walter, poet (temp, fifteenth century), was author of biblia Veraißcata. Hotspur, Henry Percy....

...ni. They come home to men's business and bosoms. Dedication to the Essays, ed. 1615. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essay viii. of Marriage and Single Life. Rich soils are often to be weeded. Letter of Expottulatim...

...fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII <®t Carriage an& Single £tte HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages...and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded 5 from the unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed...

...great predecessors. He loved to appeal to Bacon,— " Essay on marriage and single life,"—who says: " He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...works, and of greatest merit for the public, have preceded from the unmarried, or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have endowed the...

...useful had they left children to the world, but rendered it no other service. Lord Bacon says that " he that hath wife and children hath given hostages...mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit to the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men ; which, both in affection and means,...

...those without families — the discipline of humanity — make always the R best public servants. " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." And again, " Charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool." The dog, therefore,...

...opinions of some learned gentlemen of the old school. "Marriage and hanging go by destiny," says one; "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief," writes another; while others exclaim with fervent feeling, "Marriage is a desperate thing," "Marriage...

...MAERIAGE is sometimes spoken of as a bar to success. Thus Lord Bacon says in his Essays, " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ;...mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit to the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means,...

...that cannot possibly mend his own case, will do what he can to impair another's.' Of marriage, — •He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.' And, — 'Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands.' Again,—...