 Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like, all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number...  The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ... - Pàgina 124per Francis Bacon - 1900 - 6 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1858 - 798 pàgines
...Bacon's Essays (2n* S. v. 181.) — Bacon in his twenty-ninth Essay has the following passage : — " Number itself in armies importeth not much, where...people is of weak courage; for- (as Virgil saith) it never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be." In some illustrations of Bacon's Essays inserted in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pàgines
...races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordinance, artillery, and the like ; all this is but & sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition...people is of weak courage ; for, as Virgil saith, "It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be." The army of the Persians in the plains of Arbela,... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 328 pàgines
...the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates, " stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike." Socrates, being reminded by Callicles that under the sort of liberty then existing at Athens, he could... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1859 - 320 pàgines
...the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates, " stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike." Socrates, being reminded by Callicles that under the sort of liberty then existing at Athens, he could... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1859 - 206 pàgines
...true ; — that " "Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, ordnance, artillery, and the like, — all this is...and disposition of the People be stout and warlike." (See before, p. 110 ; and pp. 118, 123.) That the present ministers need such advice, as well as some... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pàgines
...yet apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance,...armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak t latiut mperawhm. VOL. XII. 12 courage ; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 872 pàgines
...INVASION. Walled Townes, stored Arcenalls and Armouries, Goodly Races of Horse, Chariots of Warre, Elephants, Ordnance, Artillery, and the like : All...in a Lion's Skin, except the Breed and disposition be stout and warlike. Nay, Number it selfe in Armies importeth not much where the People is of weake... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 690 pàgines
...apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armouries, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance,...be stout and warlike. Nay, number itself in armies is not much advantage, where the people are of weak courage ; for, as Virgil says, it never troubles... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 686 pàgines
...apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armouries, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance,...be stout and warlike. Nay, number itself in armies is not much advantage, where the people are of weak courage ; for, as Virgil says, it never troubles... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pàgines
...yet apt to be the foundations of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance,...armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak 1 latins imperandum. VOL. XII. 12 courage ; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many... | |
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