 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...new world. Lord Bacon has remarked, "In the youth of a state arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together...declining age of a state mechanical arts and merchandize." This has been true of the nations of the past. But this nation, first of all, has had a youth distinguished... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1850 - 678 pages
...new worldLord Bacon has remarked, "In the youth of a state arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together...declining age of a state mechanical arts and merchandize." This has been true of the nations of the past. But this nation, first of all, has had a youth distinguished... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...contained in that passage of Lord Bacon : " In the youth of a State arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a State, learning ; and then both of them together...the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise." It may be the mission of England to show that arms can flourish as protectors of mechanical... | |
 | Charles Bray - Collective settlements - 1844 - 126 pages
...AN ESSAY, &c. "In the youth of a State," says Lord Bacon, "arms xk, flourish ; in the middle age of a State, learning ; and then both of them together...the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise." Proud and eminent as is the position of Britain at the present time, at the head of the... | |
 | Mary Hennell - Collective settlements - 1844 - 384 pages
...INTRODUCTION. " In the youth of a State," says Lord Bacon, " arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a State, learning ; and then both of them together...the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise." Proud and eminent as is the position of Britain at the present time, at the head of the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...these And it is thus wound up : — In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state learning, and then both of them together for...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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...— In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state learning, and then hoth of them together for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath its infancy when it is hut heginning, and almost childish ; then its youth,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...youth of a slah-arms da flourish; in the middle age of a state learning, aud then hoth of them,together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath its infancy when it,is hut heginning, and almost childish ; then its youth,... | |
 | Railway readings - 1847 - 172 pages
...to work." Vicissitude of Things.—" In the youth of a state, arms do flourish, in the middle age of a state, learning, and then both of them together...state, mechanical arts and merchandize. Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childless: then its youth, when it is luxuriant and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...on Vicissitude of Things, he says, In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in tho middle age of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time : in the declining aft of a slate, mechanical arts and merchandise. Lloyd, in his life of Sir Edward Howard, says, almost... | |
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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 merchandize. 
