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The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
The Essayes or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon Lo Verulam Viscount St Albans Author:Francis Bacon General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Original Publisher: E. P. Dutton Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial acc... more »ess to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Essay VII. Of Parents and Children IE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter : jhey in- S wfT'-f M crease the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men : and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed: so the care r - terity is most in them that have no They that are the first raisers of their are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance not only of their kind but of their work; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents towards their several children is many times unequal, and sometimes unworthy, especially in the mother; of pos- posterity Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper. as Salomon saith, A wise son rejoiceth the father, but an ungracious son shames the mother. A man shall see, where there is a house full of children, one or two of the eldest respected, and the youngest made wantons; but in the midst some that are as it were forgotten, who many times nevertheless prove the best. The illiberality of parents in allowance towards their children is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes...« less