 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - Страниц: 456
...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. Wives are young men's mistressesf, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses; so as a man may have a quarrel8 to marry... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service, Lucile B. Spurlock, Luthera Burton Dawson - 1961 - Страниц: 216
...the sentiments of the following, but the pithy brevity of their expression is worthy of admiration : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a reason to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | United States. Internal Revenue Service - 1961 - Страниц: 216
...the sentiments of the following, but the pithy brevity of their expression is worthy of admiration : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a reason to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | Calvin Darlington Linton - 1962 - Страниц: 216
...the sentiments of the following, but the pithy brevity of their expression is worthy of admiration : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a reason to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | Geoffrey Hawthorn - 1978 - Страниц: 224
...that this relationship would grow with time. This was encapsulated in Francis Bacon's aphorism that 'Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.' It is always impossible to document an absence, but in comparison to our ideal-type peasant society... | |
 | Paula Marantz Cohen - 2001 - Страниц: 1286
...second sentence is logically related to the first, and (b) how the third is related to the second: Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...age, and old men's nurses. So as a man may have a quartel to marty when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 1987 - Страниц: 700
...Lawrence: The Croydan Years, Austin, 1965, p. 14). He also knew Bacon's 'Of Marriage and Single Life': 'Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses'. 372:35 if DHL originally wrote 'What must human beings be like, if this is the outward shape of their... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - Страниц: 348
...Social Destiny of Man, trans. Henry Clapp, Jr. (New York: RM Dewitt, 1857), 133, 129, 130, 127. 24. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." Bucon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1884), 86. 25. Fourier,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - Страниц: 414
...dramatist, poet See Moore on BYRON; La Rochefoucauld, Shakespeare on FOOLS; Smith on The SCOTS Wives Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.... | |
 | A. F. Robertson - 1991 - Страниц: 244
...may be more appropriately considered as a process than a status.' Francis Bacon wryly observed that 'Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses' (Macfarlane 1978a: 110). For their part, husbands may complain that the winsome lass they married is... | |
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