 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...Certainly wife and children arc a kind of discipline of humanity ; and single men, though they may scene in a country. 0 that I might entreat your rare...employed in more profitable courses : ало! let th hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks maketh the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind...discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, 1 Not their affair. ' Capricious.... | |
 | Markku Peltonen - 1996 - 406 pages
...More generally, because single men lack the responsibility of wife and children, and "though they may be many times more charitable, because their means...exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hardhearted" (VI, 392). Such examples suggest Bacon's resistance to generalization in matters of character.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2007 - 157 pages
...wives and children; and I think the despising of marriage amongst the Turks maketh the vulgar soldier more base. Certainly wife and children are a kind...discipline of humanity; and single men, though they may be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust * Not tfcdr affair, » Caprieiotis.... | |
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... yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon. Grave natures, led by custom, and therefore constant, are commonly loving husbands, as was said of... 
