The essaies of Sr. Francis Bacon ... His religious meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. Seene and allowed (1613)
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626 · London, I. Iaggard · leaf 23
t in Rate then that cunningmen pafle for wife. Bj jO/ 5^ Of^5\/fariageand Jingle Lifp. E that hath Wife &children, hathgiuehoftagcsto fortue,tor they are impe-diments to greatenterprises, eytherof verrueornFiifchiffe. Certainelicthe bcft works, and of greatcft me-rit for the publike, haue… … ESSAIES. that lead a fingle life, whofethoughts jfioe end with themfelues,and doe account future times, im-pertinences. Nay, there are fome o-ihers,thatefteeme Wife and Chil-dren, but as bils ofcliarges. But themoft ordinary caufe of a Hnglelife^is libertic ; ejpecially in certainefelfc-pleafing…
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