 | 1876 - 860 pages
...strangers, more admired and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom...a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that man, in these innovations, would follow the example of time himself, which indeed innovateth greatly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still : which contrariwise moveth so round that a froward retention of custom...that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to 25 the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - 1876 - 400 pages
...contemplative prince whom he was wont to claim as his exemplar. The greatest radical of his time, he knew that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...too much old times, are but a scorn to the new*." He had taught the world explicitly that it was not a republic, but a great kingdom like the kingdoms... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - 1876 - 432 pages
...contemplative prince whom he was wont to claim as his exemplar. The greatest radical of his time, he knew that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new3." He had taught the world explicitly that it was not a republic, but a great kingdom like the... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - 1876 - 420 pages
...they trouble by their iuconformity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations...follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, iunovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived, for otherwise whatsoever is... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - 1876 - 534 pages
...his time, he knew that "a. froward rctcnHnn of mstom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation, ajid they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new*." He had taught the world explicitly that it was not a republic, but a great kingdom like the kingdoms... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...displeasure their descendants ; so are where it harms. precedents mostly better than imitations. 7. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. 8. Since of themselves things change for the worse, if by wise counsel we do not change them for the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1877 - 466 pages
...long gone together are, as it were, confederate within themselves. ... It were good, therefore, if men, in their innovations, would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' Essay on Innovations. Cp. Hooker, Ecc1. Po1., Book i. ch. 10, par. 9, last... | |
 | 1851 - 1006 pages
...generalisation !) — then warns the fearful that " he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils;" that a " froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation;" and sums up a wisdom, that is surely divine, in the one advice worthy of a Socrates, a Thomas a-Kempis,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...favored. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward2 retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an...the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth gready, but quiedy, by degrees scarce to be perceived. For otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked... | |
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All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrary wise, 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. 
