It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 430by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...alfo, not to try experiments in States, except the ncceffity be urgent, or the utility be evident j and well to beware, that it be the Reformation that draweth on the Change, and not the defire of G 4 Change Chang? that pretendeth the Reformation. And Mly, that the Novelty, though it be... | |
| Samuel Parr - Clergy - 1792 - 244 pages
...fays Bacon, " not to try experiments in " ftates, except the neceffity be urgent, or the utility be evident ; " and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the " change, and not the defire of change that pretendeth the reforma'( tion." They who complain of wife laws, and of what Cicero... | |
| 1804 - 508 pages
...change that pretendetji the re/orjuaiion. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, vet yet be held for a suspect : and, as the Scripture...a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about vs, and discover what is the strait and right iray, and so to walk in it." PREROGATIVE AXD LAW. —... | |
| 1807 - 770 pages
...likewise truly said—" It is good not to try experiments ia states, except the necessity bs urgent, or the utility evident, and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the chapge, and not the desire of change tha$ pretendeth the reformation ; and, lastly, that the novelty,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 636 pages
...experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be reformation that draweth on the change, and not the...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.' * Considerations touching the Amendment of the Laws, cap. 1, Next to the evil of tampering with the... | |
| James Jopp - Constitutional history - 1812 - 460 pages
...to the author. It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be...upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and dis* cover what is the straight and right way, and so to \valh in it." Such are the comprehensive views,... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1812 - 760 pages
...continues : — It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be wrgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.' Such are the comprehensive views, the prudent and instructive counsel of Lord Vcrulam (E-isay on Innovation)... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1813 - 690 pages
...energies proper to be exerted, and therefore proper to b« 1 Essay on Innovation.— He likewise says, " and well to beware that it be the reformation that...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation" — this we conceive to b* very necessary in the change meditated in our Parliament. 321 protected,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...It is good also, not to try experiments in States; except the necessity be urgent, or the utility be evident ; and well to beware, that it be the reformation...way, and then look about us, and discover what is the strait and right way, and so to walk in it." AFFECTED Dispatch is one of the most dangerous things... | |
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