 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 872 pages
...(248.) Annclwreie would say concerning the popular estates of Graecia; That he wondered how at At/tens wise men did propose, and fools did dispose. f 232....and orators to the winds : For that the sea would be culm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it. 233. (197.) Socrates was pronounced by the oracle... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...the rabbits understood Latin ?" Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it. A man being very jealous of his wife, insomuch that which way soever she went, he would be prying at... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...whether they should live or die." Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds : for that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it. Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man of Greece, which he would put... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1892 - 882 pages
...estates of Grsecia ; That he wondered how at Athens wise men did propose, and fools did dispose. t 232. Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators...winds: For that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the wind* did not trouble it. 233. (197.) Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest... | |
 | Samuel A'Court Ashe - North Carolina - 1905 - 950 pages
...JAMES HUNTER 'OLON likened the people to the sea and their orators and counsellors to the winds, for the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it. The illustration is none the less happy because it may be turned and viewed from another side. There... | |
 | Martha Helen Haywood, Mrs. Hubert Haywood, Mary Hilliard Hinton - Local history - 1910 - 336 pages
...lawless populace. Solon likened the people to the sea and their orators and counselors to the winds, for the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it. The illustration is none the less happy because it may be turned and viewed from another side. There... | |
 | Josephine Turck Baker - English language - 1911 - 180 pages
...better of the two." Solon compared the people to the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds; for the sea would be calm and quiet if the winds did not trouble it. — Bacon. Comparison With, Between, To. With. — A consideration of a likeness or a difference in... | |
 | German literature - 1913 - 582 pages
...kommen können. Doch zeigt Apophth. 232 (W. Vn, p. 158), daß auch diese Stelle Bacon vorgeschwebt hat: „Solon compared the people unto the sea and orators...'For that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the *) Doch werden an dieser Stelle die Verse nur als „naturwissenschaftlich" aufgefaßt („'£>' Se... | |
 | Max freiherr von Waldberg - German literature - 1913 - 374 pages
...kommen können. Doch zeigt Apophth. 232 (W. Vu, p. 158), daß auch diese Stelle Bacon vorgeschwebt hat: „Solon compared the people unto the sea and orators...'For that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the a) Doch werden an dieser Stelle die Verse nur als „naturwissenschaftlich" aufgefaßt. (»Ev Se TOÏG... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1923 - 392 pages
...Bacon's apophthegms we read that Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds ; for that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it. In the United States the winds of nativism blow periodically, and the populace from the Atlantic to... | |
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Solon compared the people unto the sea, and orators and counsellors to the winds : for that the sea would be calm and quiet, if the winds did not trouble it. 
