 | George Wilson Meadley - 1813
...deadliest evil that can befal a powerful state; ever remembering the wise remark of Bacon, " That if time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end *." But, whilst the principles of Sydney were thus gloriously maintained by his country, his fate was... | |
 | 1813
...expect new evils: for time ia the. greatest innovator : and i I' time, of course, alter all thiuga to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the belter, what shall be the end ?" — This in an argument, I trust, sufficiently strong to justify the... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816
...consequences of the general discontents throughvator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816
...general discontents throughvator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if v.isclom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end 1" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Literary Criticism - 1818
...says that profound politician, ' is the • greatest innovator. And if time of course alter things for the • worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the • better, what shall be the end ? A fromard retention of custom ~ is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that • reverence... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - Philosophy - 1819
...hath a natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that...will not apply new remedies must expect new evils ; foy time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822
...worthy than most that succeed ; so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imitation. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821
...be what it may, we .answer their accusation in the words of one of the wisest of mankind *: " That time is the greatest innovator ; and if time, of course, alter •things for the worse, and if wisdom and counsel ahall not alter them for the better, what shall be the end... | |
 | William Clarke Somerville - History - 1822 - 390 pages
...against the causes of the national grievances. "If time," says the father of modern philosophy, "shall alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...alter them to the better, what shall be the end?" Whether it was then too late for alteration or not, is a question which can never be determined. But... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
...hath a natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that...apply new remedies must expect new evils ; for time is VOL. in. u the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom... | |
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Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator... 
