 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 ページ
...were but to roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired and less favoured. 39. It were good that men, in their innovations, would...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. 40. They that reverence too much old time, are but a scorn to the new. 41. The Spaniards and Spartans... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 ページ
...were but to roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired and less favoured. 39. It were good that men, in their innovations, would...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. 40. They that reverence too much old time, are but a scorn to the new. 41. The Spaniards and Spartans... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 ページ
...were but to roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired and less favoured. 39. It were good that men, in their innovations, would...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. 40. They that reverence too much old time, are but a scorn to the new. 41. The Spaniards and Spartans... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 ページ
...materials of the closet. But it is well in all cases to remember the wise recommendation of Lord Bacon, " that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." f And nothing can introduce more sobriety of judgment than the experience derived from the history... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1826 - 576 ページ
...good. " It were good," says Lord Bacon, " that men, in their innovations, would follow the exam pie of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ;" but the flood of time has rolled over this people, without producing any sensible impression; and... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 734 ページ
...they that revere too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that man in his innovations would follow the example of time itself,...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." With propriety then may we extend to law that emphatical language of the prophet, which the same illustrious... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1828 - 108 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." * Without descending to the puerile ostentation of panegyric, on that of which all mankind confess... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 ページ
...better, what shall be the end ? Bacon's Essays. It were good that men in innovations would follow tbe , I shoulH L* Id, Men pursue some few principles which they have fhanctd upon, and care not to innovate, which draws... | |
 | James Kent - 1830 - 556 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...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." a Goodenough v. Goodenough, Dickent, 795. Curtis v. Curtis, 2 Bro. 620. Mundy v. Mundy, 4 Bro. 295.... | |
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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... 
