 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...engines, we would lay before him, for his consideration, this saying of his own Lord Verulam : — ' 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.'... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...engines, we would lay before him, for his consideration, this saying of his own Lord Verulam : — ' 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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 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.... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - Steam-navigation - 1840 - 210 pages
...great only by her ruins? Lord Bacon has said, in his essay " Of the Vicissitude of Things," that " 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."... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
...in kind from all preceding national greatness, and worthy of a 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 for a time ; in the declining age of a state mechanical arts and merchandize."... | |
 | American literature - 1887 - 890 pages
...person a determination to belie the terrible suggestion 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 for a time ; in the declining age of a State, mechanical arts and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...and great droughts, they do merely dispeople and destroy.'' Both 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 a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.... | |
 | Railway readings - 1847 - 172 pages
...said he, " you are very good, I had almost resolved to have gone 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 for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize.... | |
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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. 
