 | Great Britain - 1732 - 300 pages
...tainly to a Kingdom or Eftate, ajuft and honour" able War is the true Exercife; a Civil War in" deed is like the Heat of a Fever, but a foreign " War is like the Heat of Exercife, and ferveth to " keep the Body in Health ; for in a long and " flothful Peace Men's Courages... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1788 - 738 pages
...certainly to a kingdom or eftate a juil and honourable war is the true exercife. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of exercife, and ferveth to keep tb _• otiy in health : for in a flothful peace both courages will effeminate,... | |
 | Books - 1788 - 750 pages
...certainly to a kingdom or eftate a juft and honourable war is the true exercife. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of exercife, and feu ah t<* keep the body in health : for in a ilothful peace both courages will effeminate,... | |
 | Henry Card - Insurgency - 1803 - 730 pages
...828." ** It i? thejuft and lively comparifonof the celebrated Lord Bacon, " that a civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of cxercile, and icrveth to Iceep the body in health." See his ElFays, Mora!, Economical, and Political,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever, but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for, in a slothful peace, both courage will effeminate, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...certainly, to a kingdom, or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for, in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes. 82. A civil war is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health. 83. Suspicions among thoughts, t are like bats among birds,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...certainly, to a kingdom or estate a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health; for in a slothful peace both courages will effeminate, •and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes. 81. A civil war is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health. 82. Suspicions among thoughts, are like bats among birds ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...certainly to a Kingdom or Estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever : but a foreign war is like the heat of excrcise, and serveth to keep the body in health : for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate,... | |
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly to a kingdom or estate a just and honourable war is the true exercise. A civil war indeed is like the heat of a fever ; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise,... 
