 | John Kentish - 1846 - 444 pàgines
...apposite paraphrase of it than in Lord Bacon's Essay on Innovations; especially in the sentence, " They that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." XI. 9. " Rejoice, &c.—but know thou, that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgment."]... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 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 confess... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pàgines
...moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn...innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to beperceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs other... | |
 | James Kent - 1848 - 798 pàgines
...remedy by suit most in practice. The claim of dower is considered, in Newthat •' it were good if men, in their innovations, would follow the example...which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degree! scarce to be perceived." By the statute of 3 and 4 William IV., r. 27, all real and mixed actions,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pàgines
...unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer." — SHAKESPEARE. " They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new." — LORD BACON. Interfecto Julio, utrum Roma; profuit quod unus Augustus imperio nactus est. No one... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pàgines
...froward retention ol custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too nyich old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good,...be perceived ; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for ; and ever it mends some, and pairs others ; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune,... | |
 | Samuel Eliot - 1849 - 594 pàgines
...to the liberty of a heathen oped by the gloom of ignorance, hierocracy ! CHAPTER III. EGYPT. " Time indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." — BACON, Of Innovations. " Regiam civiutem ^Egyptii invenere."— PLINY, Xat. Jlal., VII. 57. THE... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a' scorn...would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovaleth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived: for otherwise, whatsoever is... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1850 - 502 pàgines
...trajecerat axem." — JEn. VII. v. 535. Fredericksburg. STABULARIUS. A THOUGHT FOR THE TIMES. It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...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;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pàgines
...moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and theji me and my poor estate can brued in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. I wax now meH in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly,... | |
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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... 
