...CHILDREN— see Discipline, Necessity, Obedience, Parents, Sleep, Trustfulness. Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. 717 Bacon : Essays. Of Parents and Children. For what is a child ? Ignorance. What is a child ? Want...

...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lookers-on many times see more than the gamesters. Others are remarkable by their images, at once large...

...they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. Lookers-on many times see more than the gamesters. » Others are remarkable by their images, at once...

...inferiority, the creative efforts of the individual are sublimated into the love of work. Bacon observes that "the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...their minds, where those of their bodies have failed." 1T To this category belong such men as Ben Jonson, Dryden, Addison, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith,...

...house, and after five years she comes out large and healthy. Ibid., VII, 47 CHILDREN sweeten labours; but they make Misfortunes more bitter: they increase...Life; but they mitigate the Remembrance of Death. Bacon, E, 21. WE think our Children a Part of ourselves, though as they grow up they might very well...

...Yet it is in family life that you discover the best plurality of worlds. " Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death": thus Bacon. Of the increase in the cares of life, the modern parent can speak at length; he knows he...

...The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears. . . . Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter: they increase...beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men.40 Adaptability and tradition The most obvious of the fundamental questions raised by sociobiological...

...writing is charged with procreative imagery, but always as a metaphor for intellectual productivity: "the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...their minds, where those of their bodies have failed" (Essays, p. 19). Childless himself, at forty-five Bacon married an heiress thirty-one years his junior....

...and fears. They cannot utter7 the one; nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life; but they mitigate8 the remembrance9 of death. The perpetuity by generation10 is common to beasts; but memory,*...

...and Feares: They cannot utter the one; Nor they will not 5 utter the other. Children sweeten Labours; But they make Misfortunes more bitter: They increase...is common to Beasts; But Memory, Merit, and Noble workes, are proper to Men: And surely a Man shall 10 see, the Noblest workes, and Foundations, have...