 ... 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
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 552 pages
...amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." CIVILIZATION AND SUBORDINATION. The natives of the Highlands, and the isles, are at this present moment... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 494 pages
...churlish, thwarting", and mutinous: and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considermg that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." CIVILIZATION AND SUBORDINATION. The natives of the Highlands, and the isles, are at this present moment... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...maniabk and pliant gorenuDeBt : -vrhereat ignorance muke^ 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 - 772 pages
...manialile and pliant "to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; aud the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditious, and changes. " Neither is certainly that other merit of learning, in repressing the inconveniences,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.' He then exposes, with consummate skill, the errors among learned men themselves, which commonly cleave... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwar'Jng, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. — LORD BACON. IT is so pleasant to talk of one's self, that one had rather talk of one's faults than... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...amiable and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting and mutinous : and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.— -Bacon. 309. Responsibility of Drunkards. -—It is a maxim in legai practice, that those who presume... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government j 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,... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pages
...amiable, and pliant to government: whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous: and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.—Bacon, DCCCXCIX. Responsibility of Drunkards.—It is a maxim in legal practice, that those... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...maniable 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. And as to the judgment of Cato the Censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning,... | |
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