 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to affirm that a blind man may tread surer by...learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous :... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...* bftad custom of obedience should be a surer • ' .L^ation than duty taught and understood, -i bi Aad it U without all cont-oversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can bv a light. And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to affirm that a blind man may tread surer by...learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous :... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...blind custom of obedience should be a safer obligation than duty, taught and understood, is to say that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a man with his eyes open can by a light. And, doubtless, learning makes the mind gentle and pliable to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...blind custom of obedience should be a safer obligation than duty, taught and understood, is to say that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a man with his eyes open can by a light. And, doubtless, learning makes the mind gentle and pliable to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer...learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous: and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, is to affirm that a blind man may tread surer by a...controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government ; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...say, that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation, than duty taught and understood ; it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer...guide, than a seeing man can by a light. And it is wi'liout all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable, and... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...forth what ground lieth unmanured, and another to correct ill husbandry in that which is manured." " TT is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle and generous, amiable, and pliant to government, whereas ignorance maketh them churlish, thwarting,... | |
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For to say, that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood; it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. 
