 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their Innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, 'ind by degrees scarce to be perceived: for otherwise whatsoever is new, is unlocked for ; and ever... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...points out the course of safety in all such circumstances. He says, ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise, what* soever is nr\v is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise whatsoever is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, .would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for; and ever it mends some,... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Constitutional history - 1821 - 342 pages
...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly. LORD BACON. WE have hitherto said scarcely any thing of the constitution of the House of Commons. From... | |
 | Arminianism - 1850 - 698 pages
...Bacon, on this subject, are not to be lightly treated : — " It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived It is good, also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly v but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...falls. ' Death opencth the gate to good fame and extinguished envy. It were good that man, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself,...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived. Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...ought to adopt the advice of Lord Bacon, who says, that " it were go*od that men in their innova" tions would follow the example of time itself, which indeed " innovateth greatly but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be " perceived ;" and not pursue that radical system, which, for the sake of a few dilapidated... | |
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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... 
