 | Samuel Bailey - 1835 - 464 pàgines
...which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old...is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pàgines
...serat et metat, sed preparatione opus est ut per gradus maturescant. It were good, says Lord Bacon, that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; like a living spring, constantly flowing into stagnant waters; or the gradual advances of nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pàgines
...which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old...new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some, and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pàgines
...roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired, and less favoured. 39. It were good that men, in their innovations, would follow the example...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... | |
 | 1838 - 574 pàgines
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
 | 1838 - 728 pàgines
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1839 - 340 pàgines
...things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what will be the end? It were good therefore, that men in their innovations...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;... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1839 - 366 pàgines
...net, Enwrapped in foul smoke, and clouds more black than jet. SPENCER. — Faery Queene. It were good that men, in their innovations, would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. — BACON. ' IT was on one of our superlatively doleful ague days, when a cold drizzling rain had sent... | |
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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... 
