 | James Asheton Bayard - 1834 - 198 pages
...government ; and that frequent changes are destructive of its utility. Lord Bacon says, " it is good not to try experiments in States, except the necessity...to beware that it be the reformation that draweth the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." Another important observation... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...should be like mines, resounding on all sides with new works, and further progress : but it is not good to try experiments in states except the necessity...or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is hurt, for a wrong,...change ; and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 474 pages
...unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is hurt, for a wrong,...on the change ; and not the desire of change that preteudeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...should be like mines, resounding on all sides with new works, and further progress : but it is not good to try experiments in states except the necessity...or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - Great Britain - 1837 - 284 pages
...except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and to take good care, that it be the desire of reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.'" — " Exactly what I think," said Lord Chesterton ; " so I do not give myself much... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...with new works, and further progress : but it is not good to try experiments in state* except the 319 necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...unlocked for ; and ever it mends some, and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time ; and he that is hurt, for a wrong,...change; and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...mends some, and impairs others : and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time j and he that is hurt, for a wrong, and imputeth it...change; and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect;... | |
 | Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1839 - 340 pages
...of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived It is good also not to try experiments in states,...change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."—Lord Bacon, Essay 29. Of Innovations. supersede the necessity of inspection by... | |
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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. 
