 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired, and less favoured. 39. It were good that men, in their innovations, would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. 40. They that reverence too much old time, are but a scorn to the new. 41. The Spaniards and Spartans... | |
 | 1838 - 728 pages
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
 | 1838 - 574 pages
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
 | Ephraim Banks - 1838 - 436 pages
...stood still, which contrarywise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, arc but a scorn to the new." The length of the chapter prevents me quoting it; I shall however quote... | |
 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1839 - 340 pages
...things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what will be the end? It were good therefore, that men in their innovations...but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident;... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1839 - 366 pages
...net, Enwrapped in foul smoke, and clouds more black than jet. SPENCER. — Faery Queene. It were good that men, in their innovations, would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. — BACON. ' IT was on one of our superlatively doleful ague days, when a cold drizzling rain had sent... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...stood still : which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence...is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and pairs other ; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is hurt... | |
 | Henry Hopwood - 1841 - 206 pages
...great or numerous, of sudden or frequent, changes. " It were good," says our great English philosopher, "that men in their innovations would follow the example...for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for.... It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident;... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1843 - 96 pages
...how well does he elsewhere observe, that " A froward retention of Custom is as turbulent a thing as Innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." No doubt this cry of "innovation" was loud and long, of late, among the ulemas and muftis of Constantinople.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 pages
...ones. " A froward retention of custom," says Lord Bacon, " is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." A reasonable and judicious reduction of the qualifications required of a voter, if offered early in... | |
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All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that... 
