 All this is true, See. if time stood still ; 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 times, are but a scorn to the new.  The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon - Page 554by Edited with an Introduction by John M. Robertson - 1905Full view - About this book
 | George Bush - 1852
...FOR TIME is THE GREATEST INNOVATOR : and if time of courue alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, WHAT SHALL BE THE END? .... What is settled by custom, though not good, is fit, and might be retained, if time stood still... | |
 | Edwin Hubbell Chapin - Bible - 1852 - 163 pages
...time is the greatest innovator ; and if time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" Therefore, there is always work for the Reformer to do, either in restoring, or in up-building,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852
...and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; 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 times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852
...and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrarywise, 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 to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
![Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes](http://bks0.books.google.co.in/books?id=tKUCAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Select specimens of English prose [ed.] by E. Hughes") | Edward Hughes - 1853
...as, alter, alternate, altercation. "If time of course alter all tilings to the worse, and wisdom .and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?"— Bacon. Altus, high ; as, exalt, altar. " All is the gift of industry ; whate'er Exalts, embellishes,... | |
 | George Lewis - 1853
...which they now appear. " If time," says Lord Bacon, " alter all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?" In the Greek Church, whose matters are not so well managed as those of Rome, her liturgical services,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853
...and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; 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 times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854
...and less favoured. All this is true if time stood still ; 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 times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | E O. S - 1854
...for the Esterhazy's, Palffy's, Apponyi's, &c., * " If time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?"—Bacon ; Essay on Innovations, " While the foundation and principle of a government remain good,... | |
 | 1856 - 128 pages
..."Time is the greatest innovation; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" The truth of this celebrated axiom of Bacon, even Machiavel, (the ingenious architect of monarchical governments,)... | |
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