 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
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856
...less favoured. All this is true, if time 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 too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856
...for 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 ? — Lord Bacon. CCCXCVI. CCCXCVII. People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Alexander Spiers, Basil Montagu - 1856 - 360 pages
...and less favored. 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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1857
...regulated. " If time " (to use again Bacon's warning words) " alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?" It is to be observed that, hurtful changes are often attributed to harmless ones ; and apprehensions... | |
![The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland].](http://bks8.books.google.co.in/books?id=4RwEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland].") | Robert Aspland - 1857
...be regulated. "If time" (to use Bacon's warning words) " alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" — Archbishop WHATELT. CRITICAL NOTICES. A Plan by which the Education of the People may be secured... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 550 pages
...less favoured. All this is true, if time 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 too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 707 pages
...Lord Bacon says, '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.' But then he calls upon us '... | |
 | Medical - 1857
...less favoured. All this is true, if time ttood 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. (Essay XXIV. of Innovations.)... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 707 pages
...Lord Bacon says, ' All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, movcth 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.' But then he calls upon us '... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Rawley - Philosophy - 1858
...The more natural revenge is, the more need to restrain it. He that is ready to return THE SIXTH BOOK. an injury was behindhand more in time perhaps than...the end? The slaves of custom are the sport of time. XLI. DELAY. For. Fortune sells many things to him that is in a hurry, which she gives to him that waits.... | |
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