 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 ページ
...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...when it is but beginning, and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1874 - 640 ページ
...prince, while that of its dissolution is in the reverse order. He approves of Bacon's remark, that " in the youth of a state arms do flourish, in the middle...declining age of a state mechanical arts and merchandise." So was it, he says, in Greece and Rome, and so is it, he fears, in Germany. In the very prevalence... | |
 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 374 ページ
...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 ページ
...cunning diversions, and the like ; and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles. 180 In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; 185 then his youth when it is luxuriant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 ページ
...&c. Xenophon, Mem. i. II [28] Comp. Ess. Iviii. pp. 237, 238 : ' 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.' P. 12. [9] a greater: So ed. 1640; 'a' is omitted in edd. 1605,... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - 1877 - 1044 ページ
...manhood and grasping but feeble age. We were told by "the greatest, wisest, meanest of mankind," that "in the " youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in...the declining " age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize." According to this saying wo English, nay, we Europeans, ought to be in a condition of... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - 1878 - 128 ページ
...of descent from vigour and prosperity to decay, which is implied in Bacon's well-known dictum — " In. the youth of a state, arms do flourish, in the...the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize." The characteristic, then, of this last form of national decline is, that in it " the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 ページ
...cunning diversions, and the like ; and they grew more skilful in the ordering of their battles. «8o In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the...state, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; 185 then his youth when it is luxuriant... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 ページ
...in the fifth century BC 2. How far can the following statement be supported by historical facts ? ' In the youth of a state arms do flourish ; in the...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.' 3. Show the influence of geographical situation on the history of Alexandria, Byzantium, Corinth, Venice.... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 ページ
...in the fifth century BC 2. How far can the following statement be supported by historical facts ? ' In the youth of a state arms do flourish ; in the...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.' 3. Show the influence of geographical situation on the history of Alexandria, Byzantium, Corinth, Venice.... | |
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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. 
