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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page xxxv
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then his youth, when it...
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Laconics: Or the Best Words of the Best Authors ...

John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pages
...In the ymith 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. I.earning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then its youth, when it...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 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 his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish; then his youth, when it is...
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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Battles. In the Youth of a State Arms do flourifh ; 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. 8 Arietatkns, \. e. applications of the Aria or battering ram. Learning hath his Infancy,...
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The Sister of Charity; Or, From Bermendsey to Belgravia, Volume 2

Annie Emma Challice - 1857 - 440 pages
...learning;' and with learning/' he added, obsequiously, " contemplation as her handmaid ; and then, both together for a time; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandize." The Major thought he had struck a fatalist's blow by this quotation ; but his companion...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...majoribus etiam competît, avec omnibus tcmpcstatibHS doñea, 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 his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish ' : then his youth, when it...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...lit the youth of a state, arms do Jlourish ; m tht middle age of a. state, learning ; and then both of them together for a. time: in the declining age...Lloyd, in his life of Sir Edward Howard, says, almost lu the same words, In the youth of this state, as of all others, arms dm Jlourish : in the middle state...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 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 his youth, when it...
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Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Volume 14

1871 - 596 pages
...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." " When a warlike state grows soft and effeminate, they may be sure of a war ; for commonly...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 39

William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 552 pages
...a 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." London is a mercantile city, but there are no signs of decrepitude or decay. The City's credit is unshaken,...
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