 | 1838 - 574 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.' To the same purport we would further cite the earliest and noblest of orations, ascribed by Thucydides... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...battles. 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... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...1135. 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.—Ib. 1136. Children increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - 1838 - 418 pages
...In the Youth of a State, Armes doe 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, Mechanicall Arts and Merchandize. Learning hath his Infancy, when it is but beginning and almost Childish... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 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." Yet secure against revolution, by the safety-valves of her colonies, and saved from degeneracy by this... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1841 - 894 pages
...flourish; in the ^•„^1« middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for »n for- a time : in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merьл£. chandise (3)." " If a monarchy," says Napoléon, " were made of granite, it would soon be... | |
 | 1850 - 676 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." This has been true of the nations of the past. But this nation, first of all, has had... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 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." This has been true of the nations of the past. But this nation, first of all, has had... | |
 | Mary Hennell - 1844 - 374 pages
...State," says Lord 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." Proud and eminent as is the position of Britain at the present time, at the head of the wealth and... | |
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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. 
