 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...Foundations of great Monarchies. Walled Towns, Stored Arfenals and Armouries, Goodly Races of Horfe, Chariots of War, Elephants, Ordnance, Artillery, and the like : All this is but a Sheep in a Lions Skin, except the breed and difpofition of the People be ftout and warlike. Nay , Number ( it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 pages
...Towns, llored Arfenals and Armories, goodly Breeds of Horfe, Chariots of War, Elephants, Ordinance, Artillery, and the like; all this is but a Sheep in a Lion's Skin^ unlefs the Breed andDifpofition of the People be ftout and warlike, Nay, Number it felf in Armies fignifies... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1803 - 1048 pages
...armouries, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like j all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of Ihe people be stout and <warlikt." And how is a people to be made stout and warlike but by the " exercise... | |
 | 1803 - 1050 pages
...impracticable. " Walled towns, (says Lord Bacon) sttred arsenals and armouries, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and...the breed and disposition of the people be stout and vmrlike." And how is a people to be made stout and warlike but by the " exercise of a just and honourable... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - 1810 - 606 pages
...gift lies another way, to bring a great and flourishing estate to ruin and decay. To the second thus: walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number itself in armies imports not much, where the people are of a faint and weak courage: for,... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 610 pages
...gift lies another way, to bring a great and flourishing estate to ruin and decay. To the second thus: walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number itself in armies imports not much, where the people are of a faint and weak courage: for,... | |
 | 1810 - 642 pages
...gift lies another way, to bring a great and flourishing estate to ruin and decay. To the second thus: walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly...except the breed and disposition of the people be scout and warlike. Nay, number itself in armies imports not much, where the people are of a faint and... | |
 | 1810 - 606 pages
...gift lies another way, to bring a great and flourishing estate to ruin and decay. To the second thus: walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly...ordnance, artillery, and the like ; all this is but a «heep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...that have but a small dimension of stem, and yet are apt to be the foundation of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number, itself, in armies importeth not much, where the people are of weak courage; for, as Virgil... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...power and forces of aii estate. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horses, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and...and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth1 not much, where the people is of weak courage ; for,. as... | |
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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... 
