it's an essay by Sir Francis Bacon About comparison between marriage and single life.

3. “Of Marriage
and Single
Life”
Presenter: Syed
Imran Haider

4. Francis Bacon
(1561-1626)
 Sir Francis Bacon (later
Lord
 Verulam and the Viscount
St.
 Albans) was an English
lawyer, statesman, essayist,
historian, intellectual
reformer, philosopher, and
champion of modern science.

5. Early Life and Education
 Born on January 22, 1561 in Strand, London
 His father, Sir Nicholas Bacon, was a famous English
politician and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England.
 His mother, Lady Anne Cooke, daughter of Sir
Anthony Cooke, a knight and one-time tutor to the
royal family.
 Bacon was mostly homeschooled in his early years. He
entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1573 to 1575 when
he was merely 12. He also attended the University of
Poitiers

6.  The essay “Of Marriage And Single Life” was
published in the second edition of Bacon’s
Essays (1612). In Of Marriage And Single Life
the essayist have given a comparative study
between the traits and characteristics, virtues
and vices of married and unmarried persons.

7. “He that hath wife and children hath
given hostages to fortune”

8. “…there are some foolish rich, covetous
men that take a pride in having no
children because they may be thought so
much the richer…”

9. “A single life doth well with churchmen; for
charity will hardly water the ground where
it must first fill a pool”.

10. Bacon further says that “single men
prove to be best friends, better
masters and servants”.

11. Grave men are loving
and faithful husbands.
Chaste woman are proud
of their chastity and
often forward in their
manners. A wife is
obedient and chaste only
if she thinks her
husband wise. But if her
husband is jealous, she
will never do this.
Husbands should,
therefore, never be
jealous.

12. Wives are young men’s mistresses,
companions for middle age and old
men’s nurses.

13. “Certainly wife and children
are a kind of discipline of
humanity”

14. Conclusion