 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...those first given in the collection of 1612 : — v He that hath wife and children hath given hostagei .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... | |
 | 1848 - 1390 pages
...consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : " 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 the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "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 the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — 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... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. 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... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SÄHE. — He that hath wife and children-, hath given hostages to fortune ; 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
...where the elder are disinherited, VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...where the elder are disinherited. VIII. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. He that hath wife and children, Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or... | |
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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... 
