 | 1848 - 722 pages
...57.) It was, probably, the consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or the childless man, which both... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. BOLDNESS. — Boldness is ever blind : for it soeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore it is... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages...affection and means, have married and endowed the public. BOLDNESS. — Boldness is ever blind : for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...cross it; but generally the precept is good, " optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or * See note D, at the end of the Essays. childless men; which, both in affection and means, have married... | |
 | Zacharie Boyd - Christian poetry - 1855 - 272 pages
...bought. The most thriftie is often the father of the most forlorne." " Certainly," says Lord Bacon, " the best works and of greatest merit for the public...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... | |
 | India - 1856 - 628 pages
...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... | |
 | World - 1856 - 70 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo : [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly a the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo : [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIIl. OF MAERIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly s the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... | |
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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. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless... 
