 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pàgines
...long gone together are, as it were, confederate within themfelves ; whereas new Things piece not fo well ; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble, by their Inconformity. Befides, they are like Strangers, more admired, 1 See Antitheta, No. 40. and lefs favoured. All this... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pàgines
...those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate with themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well ; but, though they help...their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity f besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 pàgines
...worthier than their descendants, so are the first precedents commonly better than the imitations of them, A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better,... | |
 | 626 pàgines
..." but " How are they to be educated ? " We must remember in this matter the words of Bacon, " Time moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation." Now since we cannot do without education for our officers, the next question is, how is... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 pàgines
...unanswerable objection urged against all improvement. We have already quoted the dictum of Bacon—that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. This was not the opinion of Ignatius Loyola, who, in order to avoid any innovation in the shape of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pàgines
...worthier than their descendants, so are the first precedents commonly better than the imitations of them, A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pàgines
...gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well ; 8 but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble...still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a 1 Ita rerum exemplarin et primonlia (quando feliciter jacta mat) imitationem cctatu tequentu utplurimam... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pàgines
...those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate with themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well ; but, though they help...they trouble by their inconformity ;' besides, they arc like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 pàgines
...worthier than their descendants, so are the first precedents commonly better than the imitations of them, A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pàgines
...And those things which have long gone together are as it were confederate within themselves, whereas new things piece not so well; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their incontbrmity. Besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if... | |
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It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit ; and those things which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well ; but though they help by their... 
