 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 pages
...been final to the war ; but this is when princes or states have set up their rest upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...much and as little of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely, at this day,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...been final to the war ; but this is when princes or states have set up their rest upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...much and as little of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely, at this day,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 374 pages
...been final to the war ; but this is when princes or states have set up their rest upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...much and as little of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely, at this day,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 pages
...been final to the war ; but this is when princes or states have set up their rest upon the battles. But thus much is certain, that he that commands the...much and as little of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. Surely, at this day,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...— All's Well ii. 3. SEA, Power by. "To be master of the sea, is an abridgment of monarchy. . . . He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and...much and as little of the war as he will ; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times in great straits. Surely at this day with us of Europe,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pages
...the sea, is master. 2 AD 1571. Cervantes lost his left arm there. Bacon was then ten years of age. the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times, nevertheless, in great straits. Surely, at this day,... | |
 | William Henry Daniel - 1901 - 290 pages
...to the war ; but this is when princes, or states, have set up their rest upon the battles ; but this much is certain, that he that commands the sea is...much and as little of the war as he will ; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times, nevertheless, in great straits. Surely, at this day... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...Princes or States, have set up their Rest, upon the Battailes. But thus much is certaine; That hee that Commands the Sea, is at great liberty, and may take as much, and as little of the Warre, as he will. Whereas those, that be strongest by land, are many times nevertheless in great Straights.... | |
 | George Goudie Chisholm - Europe - 1902 - 838 pages
...early in the following century : l " To be master of the sea is an abridgment of a monarchy. . . . Thus much is certain, that he that commands the sea...take as much and as little of the war as he will. \Vhereas those that be strongest by land are many times, nevertheless, in great straits. Surely at... | |
 | Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) - Colonies - 1903 - 514 pages
...been allowed to go to the coast of Spain again there would have been no Armada. Bacon says, " This much is certain, that he that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much or as little as he will." As Raleigh quaintly expresses it, " To entertain those that shall assail... | |
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But thus much is certain; that he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will; whereas those that be strongest by land are many times nevertheless in great straits. 
