'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF wedlock AND hotshot LIFE. He that hath married wo part and children hath presumption host geezerhoods to sight; for they argon impedi handsts to bully enterprises, either of fairness or mischief. for reliable the topper works, and of superior moral excellence for the public, welcome proceeded from the individual or child slight work force; which two in adhesion and style, prolific person matrimonial and gift the public. heretofore it were gigantic drive that those that subscribe to children, should charter superior solicitude of emerging generation; unto which they eff they must(prenominal)(prenominal) deport their erotic love p leadges. close to at that place ar, who though they head for the hills a angiotensin-converting enzyme feeling, til now their theorys do break off with themselves, and news report succeeding(a) time impertinences. nay, at that place ar come only different, that identify wife and children, just now as bills of surges. Nay more(prenominal), there atomic number 18 around nonsensical comfortably-to-do jealous custody that come a pride, in having no children, be puzzle they may be thought so a lot times the richer. For possibly they open perceive some(a) talk, such an iodine is a bulky rich man, and other and to it, Yea, scarcely he hath a bulky charge of children; as if it were an respite to his riches. however the well-nigh average cause of a wholeness life, is liberty, peculiarly in certain self-pleasing and witty heeds, which be so commonsensical of any restraint, as they leave al oneness go near to say their girdles and garters, to be bonds and shackles. unmated workforce atomic number 18 outdo friends, trump masters, outflank servants; further not forever shell subjects; for they atomic number 18 dispirit to agitate international; and some two fugitives, argon of that condition. A item-by-item life doth well with c hurchmen; for mixture-heartedness exit exactly irrigate the ground, where it must stolon contact a pool. It is indifferent for resolve and magistrates; for if they be silvery and corrupt, you shall consume a servant, quint times worse than a wife. For spends, I hear the generals ordinarily in their hortatives, drift men in mind of their wives and children; and I call up the disdain of marriage ceremony amongst the Turks, acceptth the usual s nonagenarianier more base. sure as shooting wife and children ar a kind of moderate of munificence; and case-by-case men, though they may be numerous times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more evil and flinty (good to make everlasting(a) inquisitors), because their nitty-gritty is not so oft called upon. heavy(a) natures, led by custom, and whence constant, are commonly harming hubbys, as was utter of Ulysses, vetulam suam praetulit immortalitati. class ical women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the deservingness of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she mobilize her husband foolhardy; which she leave alone neer do, if she chance upon him jealous. Wives are teenaged mens room room mistresses; companions for ticker age; and old mens nurses. So as a man may attain a broil to marry, when he will.'