 Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams," inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it...  English Prose from Mandeville to Ruskin - Page 59by William Peacock - 1903 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 pages
...visions and your old men shall dream dreams"; on which Lord Bacon has recorded the ancient inference, " that young men are admitted nearer to God than old,...because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream." 1 It is not uncommon to hear people declare themselves against Slavery, and willing to unite in practical... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...part, perhaps youth will have the preeminence, as age hath for the politic. A certain rabbin, upon the text, "Your young men shall see visions, and your...than in the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have an over-early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes: these are, first, such as... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...their faults? In his Essays the same verdict is more generally but no less distinctly pronounced : Age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding than in the virtues of the will and affections ; s and again, though here less emphatically, for the moral part perhaps youth will have the preeminence,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...part, perhaps, youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that 50 young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...part, perhaps youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin upon the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and...than in the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have an over-early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes : these are first, such as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...part, perhaps youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politic. A certain rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your...profit rather in the powers of understanding, than hi the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have an over-early ripeness in their years,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...part, perhaps, Youth will have the pre-eminence, as Age hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin,11 upon the text, ' Your young men shall see visions, and...than in the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have )2 an over-early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes : these are, first, such... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...part, perhaps, Youth will have the pre-eminence, as Age hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin,11 upon the text, ' Your young men shall see visions, and...than in the virtues of the will and affections. There be some have12 an over-early ripeness in their years, which fadeth betimes : these are, first, such... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1879 - 280 pages
...dictum of that strange genius — so sanguine in science, in morals so despondent — who tells us that, Age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding than in the virtues of the will and affections, we shall, rather recognise that, until men have known and resisted the temptations of the world, they... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...part, perhaps, youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin, upon the text, Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that 50 young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream.... | |
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