 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 798 pages
...parish, without dictionaries, and with no other edition of the Essays but MH. SINGER'S to refer to. 1. " Wives are young Men's Mistresses ; Companions for middle Age; and old Men's Nurses. 80 as a Man may have a Quarrel to marry when he will." — Ess, viii. p. 27. Here " quarrel" seems... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1859 - 526 pages
...obedience in the wife if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. * Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurs* «.' The last degrading sentence is found in some writer, whose name I cannot recollect. Lady... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 854 pages
...from a fool. vii. 161. Witchcraft, the act of envy hath somewhat of it, vi. 395. is felony, vii. 738. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, ri. 392—548. of kings, vi. 421. Woad of Gascoigne and Languedoc to be imported only in English bottoms,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1861 - 460 pages
...from a fool, xiii. 381. Witchcraft, the act of envy hath somewhat of it, xii. 107. is felony, xv. 327. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, xii. 103, 322. of kings, xii. 143. Woad of Uascoigne and Languedoc to be imported only in English bottoms,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er ye be, — And oh ! pray, too, for me. Landor. Married Life of. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Bacon. Hateful when Masculine. A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effeminate... | |
 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er ye be, — And oh ! pray, too, for me. Landor. Married Life of. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Bacon. Hateful when Masculine. A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not more loathed than an effeminate... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1866 - 570 pages
...obedience in the wife if she think her husband wise, .which she will never do if she find him jealous. " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses." The last degrading sentence is found alas ! in the Moral Essays of Bacon. Lady Gethin, with an intellect... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise, which she will never do if she find [11] him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...obedience, in the wife, if she thinks her husband wise, which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a qnarrel' to many when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 140 pages
...old reading is quarry ; but quarrel is Holinshed's word. Bacon, in his Essay on Marriage, &c., says ' Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses; so as a man may have a quarrel (Lat. ansa) to marry when he will.' In Latimer's Sermons are several instances... | |
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses, so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. 
