 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1877 - 554 lapas
...master. Compare this passage with the often-quoted sentence of Lord Bacon's : — " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune :...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."— Essay vii. Menne ought not to putte fortlie their handes to their friendes with t/teir fyngcrs clynchedfast... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 lapas
...move et facile illud faciet consuetudo : [choose the best — custom will make it pleasant and easy.] Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom...are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. J HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 lapas
...master. Compare this passage with the often-quoted sentence of Lord Bacon's : — " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune :...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." — Essay vii. Menne ought not to putte forthe their Itandes to tJicir friendes with their fyngers... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 lapas
...thou dare be an adulterer, thou darfst forswtar thyself." " He that hath я wife ai d children liaih given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." — Bacon. " Of all sighte which r-an sulten and hum» nise the heart of man, BC H90. there is rone... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 lapas
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 lapas
...cross 50 it ; but generally the precept is good, Optimum elige, suave et facile illudfaciet consuetude. Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII ;$larriag;e antr HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 lapas
...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.... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 lapas
...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... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1881 - 182 lapas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1881 - 420 lapas
...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,... | |
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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. 
