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" Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ... - Page 141
by Francis Bacon - 1825
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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...men in age arc actors. And lastly, good for external accidents, because authority follows old men, and favour and popularity youth. But for the moral...part, perhaps, youth will have the preeminence, as age has for the politic : and certainly the more we drink of the world the more it intoxicates ; and age...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...men in Age are actors. And lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth Old Men, and favour and popularity Youth. But for the moral...hath for the politic. A certain Rabbin upon the text, 'c Your Young Men shall see visions, and your Old Men shall dream dreams," inferreth, that young men...
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external 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," ihferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followe'th oW men, and favour and popularity youth: but, for the moral...God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation thaa a dream: and, certainly the more a man' drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth: and age...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 pages
...men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, becanse anthority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, becanse vision is a clearer revelation than a dream : and, certainly, the more a man drinketh of the...
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Essays moral, economical and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, for the moral...the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxieatcth : and age doth profit rather in the powers of understanding than in the virtues of the...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...men in Age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but for the moral...God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation tban a dream : and, certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth : and...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...men in age are actors: and lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth. But for the moral...politic. A certain Rabbin upon the text, Your young meti shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; inferreth,thatyoung men are admitted nearer...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - 1828 - 356 pages
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. Bacon'l Eaayi. Authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but for the moral...youth will have the pre-eminence, as age hath for the politick. 1,1. After death, we sprights have just such natures We had, for all the world, when human...
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