 TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.  The Warner Library - Page 1171edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pages
...taken away with the bad, which commonly is done when the people is the reformer. XVIII.— OF TRAVEL. TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1861 - 556 pages
...mortifying to themselves to find such good English offered in exchange. Bacon tells us, " He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel ; " and Murray, in more modern times, tells us that "no one should think of travelling before he has... | |
 | William Ferguson Beatson Laurie - 1862 - 416 pages
...myself in the predicament alluded to by Bacon in his well-known sage remark : — " He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel." An esteemed and learned friend of mine once informed me that, when in the Highlands, if the people... | |
 | 1862 - 500 pages
...travels for something more than merely pour passer le temps, and remembers Bacon's wise homily — " Travel in the younger sort is a part of education, in the elder a part of experience." [HINTS FOR RAMBLES. — 1. Through ALLINOTON find PARNHAM to BEAMINSTER is a walk of considerable interest... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...the Prophet, ' Thou art the man.' i Essay (4th scries) ' On Superstition.' ESSAY XVIII. OF TRAVEL. TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the J- elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - 1865 - 462 pages
...latest enlarged edition of his Essays published in his lifetime (1625, 4to.) :— OF TRAUAILE. Trauaile, in the younger Sort, is a Part of Education ; In the Elder, a Part of Experience. He that trauaileth into a Country, before he hath some Entrance into the Language, goeth to Schoole, and not... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1865 - 506 pages
...mankind." He laughed, or forced a laugh ; and, taking a volume of Bacon from the table, read aloud : " ' Travel in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience ' — why, Barbarina, you are aVerulam in petticoats! Now, look you, I am of the 'elder' sort, and... | |
 | 1865 - 828 pages
...unpalatable to themselves. Lord Bacon thought more gravely of travel. "It is," he said, " in the younger sort a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth before ho hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school and not to travel The things tobe seen... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1878 - 672 pages
...weight in gold, and here the essays on travel, weighty as usual. Of course you remember his words : " Travel in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience ;" but Bacon is thinking of the nobles who alone could then indulge in travel for mere pleasure, and... | |
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