Oxford.
_Misappropriated Quotation._--I have heard the following passage of Lord
Bacon's, Essay VIII., and by a Cambridge D.D. too, so far as the word
"fortune," attributed to Paley:
"He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for
they are impediments to great enterprises. The best works of the
greatest merit for the public have proceeded from unmarried and
childless men."