 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...while virtue is in declination, are voluptuary * * In Bacon's Essay on Vicissitude of Things, he says, In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...them together for a time: in the declining age of a stale, mechanical arti and merchandise. Lloyd, in his Life of Sir Edward Howard, says, almost in the... | |
 | 1835 - 772 pages
...dulls their consciences, by representing them as a part of popery. And do not we tamper with • " In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize."— Eaay on the Vicissitudes of States. the world, as well as those of old, by purchasing... | |
 | 1838 - 574 pages
...engines, we would lay before him, for his consideration, this saying of his own Lord Verulam : — ' In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.' To the same purport we would further cite the earliest and noblest of orations, ascribed by Thucydides... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...place, cunning diversions, and the like ; and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles. Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish : then its youth, when it is... | |
 | 1838 - 728 pages
...engines, we would lay before him, for his consideration, this saying of his own Lord Verulam : — ' In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.' To the same purport we would further cite the earliest and noblest of orations, ascribed by Thucydides... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.—Bacon. 1135. In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the...the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize.—Ib. 1136. Children increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of... | |
 | 1838 - 584 pages
...engines, we would lay before him, for his consideration, this saying of his own Lord Verulam : — ' In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in -the...state, learning ; and then both of them together for a tinre : in the declining age of a state, meclianical arts and merchandise.' To the same purport we... | |
 | Frederic Martin (of London.) - 1838 - 418 pages
...obliterated in modern editions e ; thus Ess. LVIII. edit. 1625, " In the Youth of a State, Armes doe flourish: In the Middle Age of a State, Learning :...together for a time ; In the Declining Age of a State, Mechanicall Arts and Merchandize. Learning hath his Infancy, when it is but beginning and almost Childish... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 pages
...great only by her ruins? Lord Bacon has said, in his essay " Of the Vicissitude of Things," that " in the youth of a State, arms do flourish; in the...age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise." Yet secure against revolution, by the safety-valves of her colonies, and saved from degeneracy by this... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...place, cunning diversions, and the like ; and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles. In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath its infancy when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then its youth, when it is... | |
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In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. 
