...and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase...childless men, which have sought to express the images o/ their minds, where those of their bodies have failed ; so the care of posterity is most in them...

...LORD BACON. 1. IT is a strange desire which men have, to seek power, and lose liberty. 2. Children increase the cares of life ; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. 3. Round dealing is the honour of man's nature; and a mixture of falsehood is like alloy in gold and...

...and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter : they increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." My family is numerous — I have 7 children — I have had 5 others. There was one who grew up to manhood,...

...fears ; they cannot utter the one, • uor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter : they increase...death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts : butmemory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men : and surely a man shall see the noblest works...

...griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. — Lord Bacon. NORTH WIND. — A clergyman in Berkshire having asked one of liis farmers last week...

...pang at the thought that he was to leave no children to close his eyes, or to weep over his grave : " They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death."* ' Essay, " Of Parents and Children." See Life of Bacon by Montagu, and the admirable article upon him...

...and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter : they increase...and noble works are proper to men: and surely a man stall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to...

...though whether he had ever had a son is a matter for conjecture ; and Francis Bacon has reminded us that surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations...have sought to express the images of their minds, when those of their body have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity....

...and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, turn; in some it is a conceit, that is almost a nature,...men can hardly make themselves believe that they o perpetuity~T>y generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men:...

...and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labour, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase...life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. THE SAME. — He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments...