 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - 404 ページ
...iiieonformity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. 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 impairs other ; and he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 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 of time itself, which indeed mnovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is... | |
 | Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 ページ
...silent, or sedition and tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion. It were good that men, in their innovations, would...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. •A certain book had much incensed queen Elizabeth. And she asked Mr. Bacon, being then of her learned... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 ページ
...apply new Remedies must expect new Evils. . . . It were good, therefore, that Men in their Innovations follow the Example of Time itself ; which indeed innovateth...but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived. . . . Time is the measure of Businesse as money is of wares. . . . Above all things Order and Distribution... | |
 | 1909 - 378 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...itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, by degrees scarce to be perceived. For otherwise, whatsover is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends... | |
 | Theofanis G. Stavrou - 1969 - 287 ページ
...with an appropriate station in the global world? If we answer by time — which, in Bacon's words, "indeed innovateth greatly but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived" — we are wrong, for time, as the foregoing has indicated, was of the utmost essence. Russian industry... | |
 | 1830 - 534 ページ
...Utopist may with atlvantage attend to the ad. vice of the great Bacox, when he says, “ that it -wete -good that men, in their innovations, would follow...example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, .bat quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise whatsoever is new, is unlooked... | |
 | J. C. Davis - 1983 - 444 ページ
...It is necessary, therefore, for man to innovate according to time's pattern. 'It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example...itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and in degrees scarce to be perceived.' In states experiments should be avoided, 'except the necessity... | |
 | Robert King Merton, Carlo Mongardini, Simonetta Tabboni - 362 ページ
...the ubiquitous desires of men for innovations by pointing to time itself as the model of innovation which "indeed Innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived" (Bacon 1625: 101). It is obvious that the civilizational situation of modern society contains particular challenges... | |
 | Anthony Kaldellēs - 1999 - 250 ページ
...arguments throughout the text "without attracting attention," often by hiding them in digressions. "It were good that men in their innovations would...but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived. "361 Perhaps Psellos himself tried to succeed where Isaac had failed. However that may be, at the time... | |
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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... 
