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" 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. "
Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 118
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessitybe urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that...what is the straight and right way, and so to walk iu it." ' ' IDITOR — K« March 28. monitor; NO. IV. LECTURES ON THE BIBLE. • « * • • LECTURE...
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Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic ...

Hannah More - Christian ethics - 1820 - 706 pages
...FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC: * WITH Reflections? mi BY HANNAH MORE. Let us make a stand on the ancient ways, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and walk in it. LORD BACON on Innovation. I know not which is the greater wonder, either that prayer, which...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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...what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in U." XXVI. OF D1SVATCH. AFFECTED dispatch is 'one of the most dangerous things to business that can...
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The Atlantic Magazine, Volume 1

1824 - 494 pages
...and ought not to be " tried except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; " and we ought well to beware that it be the reformation that " draweth...desire of change that " pretendeth the reformation." The principle of codification is far from being new. However beautiful a " code of written reason"...
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Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts, and Opinions, Volume 2

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 444 pages
...whom we have quoted once before *, Lord Bacon, in order * Essay on Innovation. He likewise says, " and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, to show what were his ideas on the subject. He tells us, it is good also not to try experiments in...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...the straight and " right way, and so to walk in it." XXV. OF DISPATCH. Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be : It...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...and, as the Scripture saith, " That we " make a stand upVi the ancient way, and then look " about us, and discover what is the straight and " right way,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...a suspect ; and, as the Scripture saith, " That we 11 make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look * about us, and discover what is the straight and...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...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 prelendeth the reforn>a-> tion." It is truly observed by the author of Eikon Basilike, " that the devil...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 5

Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
...that pretendeth tbe reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be always suspected : and, as the Scripture saith, ' that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about as, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk b it*(y) From the resistance by...
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