 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 374 pages
...mind of Lord Bacon the statement that ' in the growth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle of a state, learning ; and then both of them together for a time ; in the decline of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.' * Now, for a people who are, from the very fact... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...the ordering of their battles. 180 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. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; 185 then his... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...LORD BACON : Essay LI., Of Studies 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. Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then its youth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...Comp. Ess. Iviii. pp. 237, 238 : ' In the youth of a state, armes doe 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, mechanicall arts and merchandize.' P. 12. [9] a greater: So ed. 1640; 'a' is omitted in edd. 1605,... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - Military art and science - 1877 - 1044 pages
...wisest, meanest of mankind," that "in the " youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the middle age of a state, " learning; and then both of them together...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize." According to this saying wo English, nay, we Europeans, ought to be in a condition of decrepitude.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...in the ordering of their battles. 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. Learning hath its infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish : then its youth,... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - Ethnopsychology - 1878 - 128 pages
...in Bacon's well-known dictum — " In. the youth of a state, arms do flourish, in the middle age of a state learning, and then both of them together for...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize." The characteristic, then, of this last form of national decline is, that in it " the practical "—a... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 pages
...be supported by historical facts ? ' 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.' 3. Show the influence of geographical situation on the history of Alexandria, Byzantium,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...the ordering of their battles. «8o 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. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; 185 then his... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 pages
...be supported by historical facts ? ' 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.' 3. Show the influence of geographical situation on the history of Alexandria, Byzantium,... | |
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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. 
