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" It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals, commonly in their... "
Dissertations Moral and Critical - Page 159
by James Beattie - 1809
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

1796 - 784 pages
...fugitiveĀ« are ol that condition. For foldiers," continues he, a little after, " I find that the cenerals in their hortatives commonly put men in mind of their wives and children : and I think the defpifing of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar foldier more bafe. Certainly, wife and children...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives put men in mind of their wives and children. And I think the despising of Marriage amongst the Turks, making the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives put men in mind of their wives and children. And I think the despising of Marriage amongst the Turks, making the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline...
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children ; and...marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldier more hase. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men, though they...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children. And I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks, maketh the vulgar soldiers more base. Certainly, wife and children are a kind of...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...servant five times worse than Ā£ wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children ; and I think the despising jof marriage among the Turks makcth the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly, in their hortatives, put men in mind of their wives and children ; and I think the despising of marriage among the Turks make-ill the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity...
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Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Letters to Charles Butler, Comprising Essays ...

Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 566 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives put men in mind of their wives and children. And I...despising of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldiers more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity : and single men,...
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Vindiciae Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Letters to Charles Butler, Comprising Essays ...

Robert Southey - Anglican Communion - 1826 - 562 pages
...servant five times worse than a wife. For soldiers, I find the generals commonly in their hortatives put men in mind of their wives and children. And I...despising of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldiers more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity: and single men,...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...subjects, for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition. For soldiers, I find that the generals in their hortatives commonly...despising of marriage among the Turks maketh the vulgar soldiers the more base. Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single...
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