 | Charles Thomas Browne - 1854 - 356 pages
...rendered respectable in the eyes of the world by their advocacy the principles of freedom. " The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times will bear it)...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."* Yet so timid was Southey, or, rather, so littleforesight... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...seditions. It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions, if the times do but only to the glory of inquisition of truth ; for so he saith expressly, " The glory of God is spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds : much poverty,... | |
 | Moses Edrehi - 1855 - 644 pages
...recommended by our great philosopher — namely, that "the surest way to prevent seditions, if the times do bear it, is to take away the matter of them. For, if there be fuel prepared, 'tis hard to tell whence the spark may come that shall set it on fire." When sultans felt themselves... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...seditions, it is a thing well to be considered — for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them ; for...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds, much poverty,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...seditions, it is a thing well to be considered — for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them ; for...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds, much poverty,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Seditions, it is a Thing well to be confidered ; for the fureft way to prevent Seditions (if the Times do bear it) is to take away the Matter of them. For if...there be Fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the Spark fhall come that fhall fet it on Fire. The Matter of Seditions is of two kinds ; Much Poverty,... | |
 | Press - 1857 - 294 pages
...checks them best, and severity only makes a wonder long-lived. The surest way to prevent discontents is take away the matter of them ; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark may come to set it on fire. To give liberty for griefs and discontents to evaporate is the best... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...seditions. It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire. The matter of seditions is of two kinds ; much poverty... | |
 | Henry Wikoff - 1861 - 84 pages
...time, place, and circumstances."—ROUSSEAU. " The surest way to prevent seditions, if the times do bear it, is to take away the matter of them; for if...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."—LOED BACON. " Power exercised with violence has seldom... | |
 | Frederick Young - 1863 - 258 pages
...EMPIRE IN INDIA. THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA. "The surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them ; for...there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire." — LORD BACON. " 'Mid pleasure, plenty, and success,... | |
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Concerning the materials of seditions, it is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them ; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall... 
