...entitled ' Of Marriage and Single Life,' also one of those first given in the collection of 1612:— He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the hest works, and of greatest merit for the puhlic, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men,...

...57.) It was, probably, the consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : "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...

...67.) It ivas, probably, the consideration of such sentiments that afterwards induced Bacon to say : " 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...

...bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SÄHE. — He that hath wife and children-, hath given hostages...; for they are impediments to great enterprises,' cither of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have...

...cross it ; but generally the PJ"£cCPAja good/j'opumum elige, suave^fwciíei^dtacief'consue""íStto." rosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity VIH. OF MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE.* HE that hath wife and childrenhath given ïo34~tagesto fortune;...

...but generally the precept is good, " Choose what is best ; custom will make it agreeable and easy." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. DISPATCH. AFFECTED dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like...

...than ordinary risk as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — " He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief." Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped...

...than ordinary risk, as I have very many dependent on me. In one of Lord Bacon's Essays he says : — ' He that hath wife and children hath given hostages...great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.' Now as my hostages are much heavier and by no means limited to these, I fear that my wings are clipped...

...not to cross it ; but generally the precept is good, ' Optimum eligc, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." Younger brothers are commonly fortunate,...seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. ANNOTATIONS. ' Let pareuts chuse betimes the eocatious and courses they mean their children should...

...generally the precept is good, " Optimum elige, suave et facile illud faciet consuetudo." 2 — iTounger brothers are commonly fortunate, but seldom or never where the elder are disinherited. VIII.— OF MAERIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE. HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they...