 Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Стр. 37авторы: George Lillie Craik - 1846Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - Страниц: 334
...worthy to live." 5 Quarrel was often used for cause. So in Bacon's essay Of Marriage and Single Life : " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will." See, also, the quotation from Holinshed in scene 4, note 8. •Show'd like a rebel's whore : but all's... | |
 | Definitions - 1881 - Страниц: 160
...be trusted to posterity, Nor pay his own debts." Shirley. -The young man's best companion. — Q — "Wives — " Are young men's mistresses, companions...as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will." Bacon. "Wind—" That grand old harper." Alex. Smith. — Summer's heir. — O — "Wishes — "Like... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1881 - Страниц: 946
...one of the best bomli of charity and obedience in the wife if she think her husband wise, which ehe will never do if she find him jealous. " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle ago, and o*I men's nu'^s." The last degrading sentence is found alas ! iu the Moral Essays of Bacon.... | |
 | a leading physician - 1881 - Страниц: 162
...the only possible way,—by keeping themselves chaste. To most men Bacon's apopthegm seems true :—" Wives are young Men's Mistresses; Companions for middle Age; and old Men's Nurses" ; although in another place he utters this contradiction :—" Nuptiall love maketh Mankinde; Friendly... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - Страниц: 506
...injustice to suppose that he had his mother in his mind when he wrote that curt passage in his Essays, ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ;' Lady Bacon, like her sisters, was a notable nurse and a strict housewife. She was by no means inclined... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - Страниц: 570
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man • His meaning is, that if clergymen have the expenses of a family to support, they will hardly find... | |
 | 1882 - Страниц: 498
...Comment on the following : (i) "So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity." (iii) "So as a man may have a quarrel! to marry when he will." (iv) " It is a poore saying of Epicurus, ' Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus.' " (v) "As for... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - Страниц: 304
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous....old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel § * Exhaust. Exhausted. t He preferred his aged wife (Penelope) to immortality. } Jealousy is a natural... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - Страниц: 214
...their heels, 6 Quarrel was often used for cause. So in Bacon's essay Of Marriage and Single Life : " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a guarrel to marry when he will." See, also, the quotation from Holinshed in scene 4, note g. 6 Here,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - Страниц: 564
...It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous....old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 4 to marry, when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question... | |
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