 No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise,...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 86by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 548 pages
...Bacon, in his " Essay on the true greatness of Kingdoms and Estates," has the following passage: — "No body can be healthful without exercise, neither...; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war is the true exercise. A civil war is indeed like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign... | |
 | Thomas Treadwell Stone - 1829 - 108 pages
...considered individual, so it has been described as national, discipline. " No body," says Bacon, " can be healthful without exercise, neither natural...body nor politic: and, certainly, to a kingdom, or a state, a just and honorable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a... | |
 | 1836 - 578 pages
...Spectator, May 4. OR, OK THEIR POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL RELATIONS ENGLAND. BY A MERCHANT. ' * i * " Let no estate expect to be great, that is not awake upon any just occasion of arming ; and do not keep due sentinel, that none of their neighbours do overgrow so (by increase of territory,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...protection, to deliver the subjects of others from tyranny and oppression ; and the like. Let it suffice, that no estate expect to be great, that is not awake...natural body nor politic : and certainly, to a kingdom ior estate, a just and honourable war is the true exjercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat... | |
 | 1847 - 608 pages
...but to weaken and injure another, by all means in its power. When Lord Bacon announced that " Nobody can be healthful without exercise — neither natural body nor politic ; and certainly to a down the fundamental principle of the protective theory ; and, in support of it, he gave a rule for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...protection, to deliver the subjects of others from tyranny and oppression, and the like. Let it suffice, that no estate expect to be great, that is not awake upon any just occasion of arming. Nobody can be healthful without exercise neither natural body nor politic ; and, certainly, to a kingdom,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...of this want of natives, as hy the ' Pragmatical Sanction,' now puhlished, anpeareth No hody can he healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor...politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourahle war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, .. like the heat of a fever; hut a foreign... | |
 | 1847 - 606 pages
...but to weaken and injure another, by all means in its power. When Lord Bacon announced that " Nobody can be healthful without exercise — neither natural...; and certainly to a kingdom or estate a just and honorable war is the true exercise," he laid down the fundamental principle of the protective theory... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...suffice, that no estate expect to be great, that is not awake upon any just occasion of arming. •10'. 'No body can be healthful' without exercise, neither natural- body nor politic': ahdj certainly, to a kjngdom, or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise,. A civil wai1,... | |
 | 1854 - 754 pages
...reach forth unto them just occasions, as may be pretended, of war. "Let it suffice," he concludes, "that no estate expect to be great, that is not awake upon any just occasion of arming." In his discussion of the rights of those engaged in war, Grotius treats as rights all those customs... | |
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