 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the. elder are disinherited. OF Carriage anD Single life. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the... | |
 | George Dyer - 1814 - 538 pages
...applied, (for the Earl of Northampton was both a bachelor and a student) Lord Bacon's observation : " he that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either to virtue or mischief 1 "." He was chancellor of the University in ifil I : he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 302 pages
...commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. v OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprizes, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 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 to fortune; for they are impediincuts to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 506 pages
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay 7. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will leas relish the food of the soul. Nay, if you abound not above others in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 pages
...seek to put me down, and reizn thyself. LI. He that hath wife and children, bath given Aoíím.v» lo fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Bacon. Hostility being thus suspended with France, preparation was made for war against Scotland, ffayward.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay 7. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will less relish the food of the soul. Nay, if you abound not above others in... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 pages
...care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay ?• He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune : for they are impediments to great enterof the poor, they will less relish the food of the. soul. Nay, if you abound not above others... | |
 | Sir Harford Jones, Sir Harford Jones Brydges - 1834 - 262 pages
...entendu, that when he received his submission, he did not hold out to him false hopes * " He that hath a wife and children, hath given hostages to " Fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises of virtue " or mischief." — BACON. of life. This is a species of glory of all others to a Turk the... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1844 - 346 pages
...fever,' and anxious to return to his family. " He that hath wife and children," says Lord Bacon, " hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Men under such bonds are peculiarly unfitted for the chequered life of a Santa Fe trader. The domestic... | |
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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. 
