 | Francis Bacon, William Rawley - Philosophy - 1858
...custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? The slaves of custom are the sport of time. XLI. DELAY. For. Fortune sells many things to him that... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1858 - 1070 pages
...worse." And Lord Bacon, seeming to have this adage in view, suggests: "If Time of course alter all things to the worse, and Wisdom and Counsel shall not alter them to tho better, what shall be the end ?" — Bacon's Essays, p. 64. 28. Hence the need that an able and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Biography & Autobiography - 1859
...remedies must expect new evils ; for time is the greatest innovator; 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 1 It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit ; and those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858
...custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? The slaves of custom are the sport of time. Against. Things new born are illshapen. The only author... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 715 pages
...strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is ah innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter * Lovers of themselves without a rival. them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860
...association, it is difficult to suppress strong emotional bubblings. For, surely, is not every medicine an innovation? and he that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils. Time is the greatest innovator, and if time, in course, order things for the worse, and wisdom and... | |
 | Religion - 1861
...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...is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be... | |
 | Language Arts & Disciplines - 1861
...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...is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley - 1861
...custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. Seeing that things alter of themselves to the worse, if counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? The slaves of custom are the sport of time. XLI. DELAY. For. Fortune sells many things to him that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Biography & Autobiography - 1862 - 715 pages
...; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and be that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils,...the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter * Lovers of themselves without a rival. them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that... | |
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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... 
