 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned. 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 for a time ; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.... | |
 | Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain) - Military art and science - 1877 - 1044 pages
...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 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."... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | George Spencer Bower - Ethnopsychology - 1878 - 128 pages
...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 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."... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 pages
...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 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 - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 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.... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 pages
...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 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 1881 - 686 pages
...of Things,' the bearing of which upon the progress of England's life will be at once apparent — ' 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... | |
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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. 
