 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...Dr. Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy: " 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... | |
 | Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...Dr. Lingard* has quoted from Lord Bacon in support of his argument for the celibacy of the clergy : "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 Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 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 - Theology - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...not to cross it ; but generally the precept ia good, " optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate,...seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they... | |
 | Sir Harford Jones, Sir Harford Jones Brydges - Great Britain - 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 - Indians of North America - 1844 - 342 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Of Marriage and Single Life. He that hath wife and...children, hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impedimenis to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest... | |
 | Josiah Gregg - 1845 - 342 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. 
