 ... 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
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...maniahle, and pliant to government ; whereas, ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most harharous, rude, and unlearned times have heen most suhject to tumults, sedition, and changes." —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 900 pages
...and unlearned times have 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, in the same kind wherein he offended s for when he was past threescore years old, he was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous: and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned tunes have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. And as to the judgment of Cato the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, 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,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...amiable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous ; and rudo, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. LEARNING— Intention... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times 1 Pytheas, according to Plutarch. have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. And as... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1869 - 234 pages
...Bacon, in his Advancement of Learning, i. 2. § 9, uses ' blasphemy' in the sense of • slander': ' And as to the judgement of Cato the Censor, he was...well punished for his blasphemy against learning.' And in the Prayer-book Version of Ps. cxix. 42, we find ' blasphemers ' for ' slanderers.' 111. Died... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 260 pages
...Bacon, in his Advancement of Learning, i. 2. § 9, uses 'blasphemy' in the sense of * slander ' : ' And as to the judgement of Cato the Censor, he was...well punished for his blasphemy against learning.' And in the Prayer-book Version of Ps. cxix. 42, we find ' blasphemers ' for ' slanderers.' 111. Died... | |
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