 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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 by their utility, yet 20 they trouble by their inconformity. Besides, they are Essay 24] ©f Innobattons 85 like strangers,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pàgines
...displeasure their descendants ; so are where it harms. precedents mostly better than imitations. 7. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. 8. Since of themselves things change for the worse, if by wise counsel we do not change them for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pàgines
...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well ; 6 but, though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their unconformity: besides, they are like strangers, more admired 7 and. less favoured. All this is true,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pàgines
...gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well;6 but, though they help by their utility, yet they trouble...inconformity : besides, they are like strangers, more admired7 and less favoured. All this is true, if Time stood still : which, contrariwise, moveth so... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pàgines
...they trouble by their inconformity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still, which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a frovvard retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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 by their utility, yet 20 they trouble by their inconformity. Besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured.... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 pàgines
...veneration for the past, and desire for progress, on the character of societies and individuals. XLIX. 'A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' — Bacon. Is genius correctly denned as a ' transcendent capacity for taking trouble ' ? LI. Trial... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 pàgines
...of veneration for the past, and desire for progress, on the character of societies and individuals. 'A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' — Bacon, Is genius correctly denned as a ' transcendent capacity for taking trouble ' ? XLIX. LI.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pàgines
...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...stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, 3 that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as*an innovation ; and they that reverence... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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 by their utility, yet to they trouble by their inconformity. Besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured.... | |
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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... 
