| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...men in age arc actors. And lastly, good for external accidents, because authority follows old men, and favour and popularity youth. But for the moral...part, perhaps, youth will have the preeminence, as age has for the politic : and certainly the more we drink of the world the more it intoxicates ; and age... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...men in Age are actors. And lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth Old Men, and favour and popularity Youth. But for the moral...hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin upon the text, 'c Your Young Men shall see visions, and your Old Men shall dream dreams," inferreth, that young men... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams," ihferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followe'th oW men, and favour and popularity youth: but, for the moral...God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation thaa a dream: and, certainly the more a man' drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth: and age... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, becanse anthority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, becanse vision is a clearer revelation than a dream : and, certainly, the more a man drinketh of the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxieatcth : and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding than in the virtues of the... | |
| John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...men in Age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but for the moral...God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation tban a dream : and, certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth : and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...men in age are actors: and lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth. But for the moral...politic. A certain Rabbin upon the text, Your young meti shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; inferreth,thatyoung men are admitted nearer... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. Bacon'l Eaayi. Authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but for the moral...youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politick. 1,1. After death, we sprights have just such natures We had, for all the world, when human... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but for the moral part, perhaps, youth will havfe the pre-emt nence, as age hath for the politic. A certain rabbin, upon the text, " Your young... | |
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