| 1900 - 854 pages
...Both are necessary in medicine, and yet a very good maxim, with which many of us are familiar, is : Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. In politics I suppose such a person would be called a "middle-ofthe-road" man, but it is... | |
| Leon Mead - 1902 - 304 pages
...familiar lines : "In words as in fashions the same rule doth hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." This dictum may influence the judicious and conservative jugglers of our mother-tongue. When society takes... | |
| George Earle Merkley - 1902 - 336 pages
...safe guide : In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Dictionaries often will help us in determining whether a new word is needed or not; for... | |
| Jean Sherwood Rankin - 1906 - 360 pages
...this famous rule : In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old, Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. numbering three hundred thousand words, he might not have offered this famous bit of advice.... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1965 - 890 pages
...have some mottoes in it, and you would just copy them over and over. And one of the mottoes was "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lav the old aside." Now, if we had copybooks, and if students were required to learn to write these... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Veterans' Affairs - 1967 - 310 pages
...enacted. Now, what has happened from July. 1966, to March 6, 1967 ? Mr. Driver. As someone has said, Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." I think that over that whole period that you have been talking about, we were busy making... | |
| Project Continuing Education for Health Manpower - 1974 - 664 pages
...which have been proved effective. Alexander Pope offers this wisdom which would appear to serve: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." It is a teaching responsibility to select the particular techniques which will advance... | |
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