| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state,* learning ; and then both of them together for a time : in the declining age...says, almost in the same words, In the youth of this state, as of all others, arms did flourish; in the middle state of it, learning; and in the declining... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1852 - 172 pages
...IN the Youth of a State, Arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, Learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Bacon. SOLITUDE. CRATES saw a young man walking alone, and asked him what he was about. " Conversing... | |
| Home missions - 1852 - 1038 pages
...In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a §Ute, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise." This has been true of the nations of the past. But this nation, first of all, has had a youth distinguished... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...in the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize.' — Essay on the Vicissitude of Things. ' On a souvent (says MC Comte) compare' un peuple... | |
| John Lalor - Currency question - 1852 - 382 pages
...In the youth of a State arms do flourish : — in the middle age of a State learning, and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandize." Looking to the changes which take place in individual character, it is to be feared that... | |
| 1853 - 560 pages
...Bacon, " In the youth of a state arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state learning, and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise." We are even inclined to think that Mr. Lalor cannot justly be charged with any exaggeration, when he... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - Europe - 1854 - 368 pages
...of a state," says Bacon, " arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time : in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise." "If a monarchy," says Napoleon, " were made of granite, it would soon be reduced to powder * Written... | |
| Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...battles. In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both riendship is, nil offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy : Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish : then its youth, when it is... | |
| Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1855 - 446 pages
...In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish ; then its youth, when it is... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath its infancy when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then its youth, when it is... | |
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