 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded... | |
 | 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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...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 - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1854 - 572 pages
...and as I crossed the threshold of my " castle," I murmured to myself, " How truly Lord Bacon remarks that ' he that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.'" TWELVE O'CLOCK, NOON. — Smith's bill returned dishonoured. That smiling villain swore by his household... | |
 | 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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that... | |
 | 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...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.' Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that... | |
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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... 
