 ... 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
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...mantable and pliant to government ; whereas 1gnorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most bafbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject,to tumults, seditions and changes. . .... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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,... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...mantable 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 for meanness of employment, that which is most traduced to contempt is that the government... | |
 | 1889 - 660 pages
...Countess of Montgomery.) (23) "... whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." (Adv., 17.) " The vulgar are commonly ill-natured, and always grudging against their governors ; which... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1889 - 654 pages
...Countess of Montgomery.) (23) "... whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." (Adi:, 17.) " The vulgar are commonly ill-natured, and always grudging against their governors ; which... | |
 | Michael MacMillan - 1890 - 200 pages
...maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart and mutinous ; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering...most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." The frequency of the delusion combated by Bacon is due to the fact that education affords the means... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 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. He who learns and makes no use of his learning, i* a beast of burden, with a load of books.... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 pages
...have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes. And as to the judgment of Cuto the Censer, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning,...with an extreme desire to go to school again and to learu the Greek tongue, to the end to peruse the Greek authors; which doth well demonstrate that his... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 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. — LORD BACON. He that wants good sense is unhappy in having learning, for he has thereby only more... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1896 - 168 pages
...man, ana was look1 Referring to this fact in the life of Cato, Lord Baron eays. " As to the judgment of Cato the censor, he was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the same kind wherein he oltended ; for when he was past threeseore years old, he was taken with an extreme desire to no to... | |
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