 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 506 pages
...body : so the 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,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 554 pages
...body : so the care of posterity, hath been most in them that had no posterity. Lord Bacon, Essay T. 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,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 512 pages
...body : so the 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,... | |
 | Sir Harford Jones, Sir Harford Jones Brydges - Great Britain - 1834 - 262 pages
...(always, bien 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... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 pages
...kind. Lord Bacon saw this, and observed, with that profound sagacity for which he was renowned — 1 He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.' His domus et placens uxor doubly pledge him to the interests of his country, for in its well-being... | |
 | Bridget Storey (fict. name.) - 1859 - 306 pages
...secret, and not expose my humiliation to the world. Good-bye.' VOL. I. 130 CHAPTER X. ' OUR MARGARET.' He that hath a wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises. — BACON. QIR HECTOR strode briskly back to the Hall... | |
 | George Francis Train - United States - 1862 - 74 pages
...temperate on that terrible tragedy. Two commandments were broken—one was no worse than the other. " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune." Siecles has done himself wrong, but the world a favour. " Eevenge is wild justice," writes Bacon. Lynch-law... | |
 | George Francis Train - United States - 1862 - 52 pages
...temperate on that terrible tragedy. Two commandments were broken — one was no worse than the other. " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune." Sickles has done himself wrong, but the world a favor. "Eevenge is wild justice," writes Bacon. Lynch-law... | |
 | George Francis Train - United States - 1862 - 48 pages
...temperate on that terrible tragedy. Two commandments were broken — one was no worse than the other. " He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune." Sickles has done himself wrong, but the world a favor. "Kevenge is wild justice," writes Bacon. Lynch-law... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...by degrees. — BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. A King and no King. Act v. Sc. 4. FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Essag viii. Of Marriage... | |
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 
