 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.  The Evangelical Witness - Pagina 5381822Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pagina’s
...laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. For , let h ; it is to affirm, that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pagina’s
...and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without at all shadow of truth. For to say, that a blind custom of obedience should be...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. And... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pagina’s
...them more consistently, than one who derives them from habit and passive obedience to authority. " To say that a blind custom of obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught or understood, is to. affirm that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pagina’s
...and I do by lamp light:9 8. It relaxes discipline by making men more ready to argue than to obey 164 To say that a blind custom of obedience should be...surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And it is without all controversy, that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pagina’s
...laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. For to say that a blind custom of obedience should be...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. And... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1853 - 588 pagina’s
...obey them. On this subject, the great Lord Bacon has the following beautiful and profound remark : "To say that a blind custom of obedience should be...than duty taught and understood, is to affirm that blind men can tread surer by a guide, than seeing ihen can by a light. Learning doth make the minds... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1853 - 382 pagina’s
...obedience should be a surer obligation than duty taught and understood, is to affirm that a blind man can tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by a light. And it i<j without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, generous, maniable,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagina’s
...laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. For to say, that a blind custom of obedience should be...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. And... | |
 | 1856 - 176 pagina’s
...the political state and institutions of our country in past centuries, would involve the fallacy " that a blind man may tread surer by a guide than a seeing man can by light." Antiquitas Seculi, Juventus Mundi. The words of the great Apostle might not inappropriately... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pagina’s
...laws and government, it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny without all shadow of truth. For to say that a blind custom of obedience should be...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 And it... | |
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