 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 psl.
...And they grew more skilful in the Ordering of their Battailes. 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. Learning hath his Infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost Childish... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 psl.
...24 &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,... | |
 | 1870 - 386 psl.
...inevitably happen under the same conditions. Lord Bacon, one of the wisest of mankind, writes, — " In the youth of a state, arms do flourish ; in the...the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandize." " When a warlike state grows soft and effeminate, they may be sure of a war ; for commonly... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1870 - 368 psl.
...upon prosperity, in the whole history of the world.J 75. " In the youth of a state," says Bacon, " arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning...age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise." "If a monarchy," says Napoleon, " were made of granite, it would soon be reduced to powder * Written... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 psl.
...grew more skilful in the Ordering of their Battailes. In the I outh of a State, Armes doe flourifh : In the Middle Age of a State, Learning; And then both...together for a time : In the Declining Age of a State, Mechanicall Arts and Merchandize. Learning hath his Infancy, when it is but beginning,6* and almoft... | |
 | 1872 - 614 psl.
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 616 psl.
...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, meihanical arts and merchandise.'* Now, for a people who are, from the very fact... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1872 - 620 psl.
...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 - 1873 - 266 psl.
...place, cunning diversions, and the like, and they grew more skilful in the ordering 4 of their battles. In the youth of a State arms do flourish ; in the...declining age of a State, mechanical arts and merchandise. Learning hath his 6 infancy, when it is but beginning, and almost childish ; then his youth, when it... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1874 - 640 psl.
...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... | |
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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. 
