 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 - Pàgina 37per George Lillie Craik - 1846Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pàgines
...him jealous. Wives are young mens Miftrefles, Companions for middle Age, and old mens Nurfes •, fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he he was reputed one of die wifemen, that made anfwer to the qmeftion i When a man fhouldi mawy .? A... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1787 - 510 pàgines
...fame fenfe : " Wives are young men's miftreffes, companions for middleage, and old men's nurfes ; fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone.' If Holinflied muft be introduced, in the fame quotation quarry is found, which does not mean... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 646 pàgines
...fame fenfe : " Wives are young men's miftrefles, companions for middle age, and old men's nurfes ; fo as a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." MALONE. * Sbo-iiid like a rebel's -whore :] I fupppfe the meaning is, that fortune, while ftie fmilcd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 428 pàgines
...goodness, " Be like our wan-anted quarrel." Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense: " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Maione. 7 Show'd like a rehel's vihore ;] I suppose the meaning is, that fortune, while she smiled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 432 pàgines
...quarrel, as the text is now regulated. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense : " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle...a man may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone. 7 Show'd like a rehel's vihore :] I suppose the meaning is, that fortune, while she smiled... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 434 pàgines
...quarrel, as the text is now regulated. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, uses the word in the same sense : "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a num may have a quarrel to marry, when he will." Malone. 7 Show'd like a rehel's whore :] I suppose... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1809 - 592 pàgines
...water into wine ; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife... | |
 | 1809 - 610 pàgines
...water into wine; but the contrary, their joy into sorrow, that is, their wine into water. One saith, wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so that a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will : but the apostle saith here, Rejoice in the wife... | |
 | 1819 - 490 pàgines
...example. It is one of the best bonds of charity and obedience in the wife, if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous....companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found in some writer^ whose name I cannot recollect. Lady Gethin, with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pàgines
...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 mens mistresses ; companions for middle age ; and old mens nurses. So as a man may have a -quarrel... | |
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