 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of...a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder 1 " He preferred his aged wife Penelope to immortality." This was when Ulysses was entreated by the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of...a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder 1 " He preferred his aged wife Penelope to immortality." This was when Ulysses was entreated by the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of...a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder 1 "He preferred his aged wife Penelope to immortality." This was when Ulysses was entreated by the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and 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...made answer to the question when a man should marry 5 —A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. ' It is often seen that bad husbands have very good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel| to marry when lie will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that...to the question when a man should marry: "A young * His meaning is, that if clergymen have the expenses of a family to support, they will hardly find... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1886 - 332 pages
...not cooking at all, or doing anything except keeping up appearances. " He was reputed," says Bacon, " one of the wise men that made answer to the question,...marry ? A young man not yet, an elder man not at all." This answer would not appear so wise, if we had less erroneous notions on the subject of keeping up... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of...it comes ; or that the wives take a pride in their patience. But this never fails, if the bad husbands were of their own choosing, against their friends'... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the :iuestion, " 7 tske a pride in their patience. But this never fails if the bad husbands were of their own choosing,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of...made answer to the question, when a man should marry : 0 66 OF ENVY. "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all." It is often seen that bad husbands... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...The first for her person, the second her purse, The third for warming-pan, doctress and nurse." to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of...wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their husbands' kindness when it comes, or that the wives take a pride in their patience; but this never... | |
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It is often seen, that bad husbands have very good wives; whether it be that it raiseth the price of their... 
