 | Edward John Hardy - Marriage - 1886 - 332 pages
...and thinks of the effect of marriage and celibacy on a man in his public capacity. " He that hath his wife and children hath given hostages to Fortune,...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which, both... | |
 | Home economics - 1886 - 452 pages
...bright with golden flowers. — Fannie S. Benson. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostage to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. — Bacon. Original in Goon HOUSEKEEPING. SHUT... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are cliAherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly 2 the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
 | Maxims - 1887 - 1332 pages
...well. Ital. 87. He that hath a white horse and a fair wife never wants trouble. 88. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune,...to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief. Bacon. 89. He that hath a wife and children must not sit with his fingers in his mouth. 90. He that... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...consuetudo"*—Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited, f OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Cerlainly_the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
 | Charles F. Steel - 1888 - 312 pages
...seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. " Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity, and single men, though they be many times more... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...Parker : Miscellaneous Discourses. A Sermon of the Moral Dangers Incident to Prosperity. DISCIPLINE. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. . . . Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity. 1180 Bacon : Essays. Of Marriage and Single... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...creeps back. Margaret Mead (1901-1978) American anthropologist He that hath wife and children have given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments...to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Man is the head of the family, woman the neck... | |
 | R. A. Ochse, R. Ochse - Psychology - 1990 - 318 pages
...that connubial activities and their products simply get in the way of creative (and other) enterprise: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...greatest merit for the public have proceeded from unmarried or childless men. (Bacon, 1685/1980 p. 149) In contrast to Freud, theorists of a more existentialistic... | |
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HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 
