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" Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. "
Denver Medical Times: Utah Medical Journal. Nevada Medicine - Page 566
1904
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The Eclectic Medical Journal, Volume 61

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...
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Word-coinage: Being an Inquiry Into Recent Neologisms, Also a Brief Study of ...

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...
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A Modern Rhetoric

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...
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Everyday English, Book 2

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....
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Proposed Amendments to Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration. Subcommittee on Standing Rules of the Senate - 1965 - 242 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 lay the old aside." Now, if we had copybooks, and if students were required to learn to write these clays,...
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Hearings

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...
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Pension Bills and Bills to Provide Additional Wartime Benefits for Veterans ...

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...
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Pension Bills, and Bills to Provide Additional Wartime Benefits ..., Volume 67

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation and Pensions - 1967 - 314 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...
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Fostering the Growing Need to Learn: Monographs and Annotated ..., Parts 1-2

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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New Developments in Solar Energy: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee - 1977 - 156 pages
...since reading them because they tend to reflect my own political philosophy. Those lines were : "Be not the first by whom the new is tried/ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Well, it is being tried already in different places. It is now time for the Federal Government...
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