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" Concerning the materials of 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... "
Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ... - Page 82
by Francis Bacon - 1720 - 448 pages
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The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis Bacon

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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ...

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...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

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...
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Reflections on the Revolution in France

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....
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon ...

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...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

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...
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Bacon's Essays

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...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

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...
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A Harmony of the Essays, Etc. of Francis Bacon, Volume 10

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...
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Bacon's Essays

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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