| Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 pages
...In the I outh of a State, Armes doe 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, Mechanicall Arts and Merchandize. Learning hath his Infancy, when it is but beginning,6* and almoft... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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 6 infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then his youth, when it... | |
| Robert Flint - 1874 - 644 pages
...that " 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." So was it, he says, in Greece and Rome, and so is it, he fears, in Germany. In the very prevalence... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...Studies 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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 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 his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; 185 then his youth when... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 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.' P. 12. [9] a greater: So ed. 1640; 'a' is omitted in edd. 1605,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
| Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1877 - 1044 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." According to this saying wo English, nay, we Europeans, ought to be in a condition of... | |
| George Spencer Bower - 1878 - 128 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." The characteristic, then, of this last form of national decline is, that in it " the... | |
| Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 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.' 3. Show the influence of geographical situation on the history of Alexandria, Byzantium, Corinth, Venice.... | |
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