| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...seditions. It is i thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions, if the times do bear it, is to take away the matter of them. For if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds — much poverty... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...seditions. It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall eet it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds; much poverty and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...seditions. It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions, if the times do bear it, is to take away the matter of them. For if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds — much poverty... | |
| Edmund Burke - France - 1890 - 568 pages
...Bacon, talking of seditions, says wisely, ' ' The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire." — Essay 15. He says the same thing again in Essay 19.... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 460 pages
...for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of 10 them ; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds ; much poverty... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...seditions, it is a thing well to be considered, for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them; for...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds, much poverty and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1892 - 402 pages
...the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. 80 For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it ou fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds ; much poverty... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...hold on the reins and guiding them. — llare. The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them ; for...there be fuel prepared it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. — Bacon. The aggregate happiness of society, which is... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1895 - 600 pages
...is a Thing well to be confidered : For the furefl way to preuent Seditions, (if the Times doe beare it,) is to take away the Matter of them. For if there be Fuell prepared,23 it is hard to tell, whence the Spark (hall come,24 that mail fet it on Fire. The... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1897 - 448 pages
...Thing well to be cons1dered : For the surest way to prevent Sedi75 tions, (if the Times doe beare it8,) is to take away the Matter of them. For if there be Fuell prepared, it is hard to tell whence the Spark shall come that shall set it on 1 bonds kings.... | |
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