 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1839 - 340 ページ
...wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what will be the end? It were good therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...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;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 ページ
...; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new . It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and pairs other ; and he... | |
 | Henry Hopwood - 1841 - 206 ページ
...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...but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for.... It is good also not to try experiments in states,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 ページ
...retention of custom," says Lord Bacon, " is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...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... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1845 - 1174 ページ
...proud monarchy, heretofore acting upon the great text authority of Lord Bacon, that ' it were good if men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, hmovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived'." III. PERSONAL ACTIONS. Having... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 ページ
...innovation, and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly and by degrees, scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is uulooked for, and ever it mends some and pain other : and he... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 ページ
...innovation, and they thai reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees, scarce to lie perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and pairs other... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 ページ
...scorn to the new. It were goodi therefore,.that men in their innovations would follow the exam pie of time itself, which, indeed, innovateth greatly,..." quietly and by degrees, scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for, and ever it mends some and pairs other : and he that... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 ページ
...invention."* Such a constitution can only be formed by the wise imitation of " the great innovator Time, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." f Without descending to the puerile ostentation of panegyric, on that of which all mankind confess... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 ページ
...; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example...innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to beperceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs other... | |
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It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived... 
