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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ... - Page 141
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...men in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for exteruo accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,"0 inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...are actors ; and, lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth ; but, for the moral part, perhaps,...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,"1 inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...are actors ; and, lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth ; but, for the moral part, perhaps,...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,"1 inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...are actors ; and, lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth; but, for the moral part, perhaps,...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams,"1 inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Essays

Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...are actors; and, lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth; but for the moral part, perhaps,...the text, " Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams"* inferroth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Entering on Life: A Book for Young Men

Cunningham Geikie - 1887 - 244 pages
...of thought, and aversion from religion can be changed only at the most terrible cost of mental * " But for the moral part, perhaps Youth will have the...because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream,"— BACON'S Essay " Of Youth and Age." and spiritual struggle. The devil, once in possession, throws us...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...men in age are actors : and lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, e Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades,...haunt of gods ? Where I had hope to spend. Quiet, have for the politic, A certain Rabbin upon the text, "Your young meu shall see visions, and your old...
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Entering on Life: A Book for Young Men

Cunningham Geikie - 1888 - 320 pages
...impressions that passes away as we grow older. There is much common, in nobler things, to both sexes in • " But for the moral part, perhaps Youth will have the...because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream." — BACON'S Essay " Of Youth and Age." early life, and, notably, a delicate tenderness, which survives...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1889 - 298 pages
...understanding than in the virtues of the will and affections ; 8 and again, though here less emphatically, for the •moral part perhaps youth will have the preeminence, as age hath for the politic? A confession of this kind strikes at the root of the hopes of moral improvement. It is as though the...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon - 1890 - 460 pages
...men in age are actors ; and lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but for the moral...men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men are ac admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream ; and certainly,...
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