 ... to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide, than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous...  Advancement of Learning - Page 17by Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...amiable, and pliant to government : whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. — Bacon. "Ah! never shall the laml formet How gushed the life-blood of her brave— Gushed, warm... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...government: whereas ignorance makes them churlish, FROM THE BEST ALTHORS. thwarting, and mutinous: and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. — Bacon. DCCCXCIX. Responsibility of Drunkards. — It is a maxim in legal practice, that those who... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...gentle, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. — Lord Bacon. STATE OF RELIGION AT THE NORTH. A VERY remarkable declension, it seems, has of late... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...and pliant to govern-' ment ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning,... | |
 | 1850 - 824 pages
...maniable and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumulte, seditious, and changée. "Neither is certainly that other merit of learning, in repressing... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government; whereas, ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, sedition, and changes." — Bacon. Derivations. Etymology. Syntax. Discipline. Unties. Discipline.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and here is no secrecy comparable to celerity ; like the...air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 374 pages
...do, you should do 1 Referring to this fact in the life of Cato, Lord Bacon says, " As to the judgment of Cato the censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy...offended ; for when he was past threescore years old, ho was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again and to learn the Greek tongue to the end... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...do, you should do 1 Referring to this fact in the life of Cato, Lord Bacon says, " As to the judgment of Cato the censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy...learning, in the same kind wherein he offended ; for when ho was past threescore years old, he was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again and to... | |
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