 | Alfred Charles Clapin - 1866 - 198 pages
...Célèbres. 2 Detruit. 3 Arrosee. 4 Bretagne. Choice of a Wife. I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year before* I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife as she... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1866 - 800 pages
...same manner. And there is an important omission. ' I had scarcely taken orders a year,' he writes, ' before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice,... | |
 | Frédéric Le Play - France - 1867 - 558 pages
...ce rapport, l'opinion publique (g26). Une saine pratique 1 « 1 was evcr of opinion that the honest man who married and « brought up a large family did more service than he who conti« niicil single, and only talked of population. • « J'ai toujours pensé que l'honnête homme... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...FAMILY.3 (FBOM THE "VIOAB OF WAKEFIELD," PUBLISHED IN 1766.) I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did...single, and only talked of population. From this motive, (1) Process, a protuberance in a bone. (2 } Goldsmith, had he written now, would not have ridiculed... | |
 | M. Michel - 1868 - 262 pages
...XXVIII. THE FAMILY OF WAKEFIELD BEFORE THE LOSS OF THEIR FORTUNE. I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single1 and only talked of population. From this motive, / had scarce taken orders a year before* I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...A KINDRED LIKENESS PREVAILS, AS WELL OF MINDS AS OF PERSONS. I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did...only talked of population. From this motive, I had scarce taken orders a year, before 1 began to , think seriously of matrimony, and chose my wife, as... | |
 | Medicine - 1904 - 790 pages
...but his wife should be kept out of his work. Goldsmith said, " I was ever of opinion that the honest man, who married and brought up a large family, did...who continued single and only talked of population." By marriage a man's sympathies are extended and his views of life are broadened. A touching picture... | |
 | Edwin Cannan - Business & Economics - 1964 - 480 pages
...earlier eighteenth-century view when he makes his Vicar of Wakefield " ever of opinion that the honest man who married and brought up a large family did...who continued single and only talked of population " (Vicar of Wakefield, 1776, Vol. I. p. i). To " talk of population " was to descant on how to increase... | |
 | René Jules Dubos - Science - 1980 - 572 pages
...Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield begins with the statement: "I was always of the opinion that'the honest man who married and brought up a large family did more service to the state than he who continued single and only talked of populations." Even today the patriarch... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist, poet I chose my wife, as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) Anglo-Irish author He will hold... | |
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I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single and only talked of population. 
