 | a leading physician - 1881 - 162 pages
...the only possible way,—by keeping themselves chaste. To most men Bacon's apopthegm seems true :—" Wives are young Men's Mistresses; Companions for middle Age; and old Men's Nurses" ; although in another place he utters this contradiction :—" Nuptiall love maketh Mankinde; Friendly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 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, so as a man • His meaning is, that if clergymen have the expenses of a family to support, they will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 214 pages
...their heels, 6 Quarrel was often used for cause. So in Bacon's essay Of Marriage and Single Life : " Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a guarrel to marry when he will." See, also, the quotation from Holinshed in scene... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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 ; so as a man may have a quarrel § * Exhaust. Exhausted. t He preferred his aged wife (Penelope) to immortality.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...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 made answer to the question when a man should marry: "A... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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, so as a man may have a quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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, so as a man may have a quarrel2 to marry when he will ; but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1886 - 684 pages
...the ' Reliquiae,' ' 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.' And then he adds, ' This degrading sentence is found in some writer whose name I cannot recollect.'... | |
 | American periodicals - 1886 - 894 pages
...the " Reliquiae," " 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." And then he adds, " This degrading sentence is found in some writer whose name I cannot recollect."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 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. So as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will. But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that... | |
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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. 
