 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...them to Briareus, with a hundred hands ; first to watch, and then to speed. LORD BACOK. IT is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1812 - 760 pages
...precept on the subject of changes in Government, and after the expressions just given, 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 the reformation that draweth on the change... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1813 - 684 pages
...quoted once before j* Lord Bacon ; in order to show what were his ideas on the subject. He tells us, it is good also, not to try experiments in states,...except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident. In this quotation, every syllable applies to us with infinitely more force than to any other instance... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1814 - 578 pages
...foreseeing the possibility of mischief in approaching innovation, has always taught that it is not good to try experiments in states except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident : but it has taught also, •' that in a well-constituted comonwealth it is not wise to retain those... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...unlooked for ; and ever it mends some, and pairs 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... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived; for, otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for. — It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utihty be evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation which draweth on the change, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 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, and imputeth to the author. It is good also, not to try experiments in States; except the necessity be urgent, or... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...unlooked 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, and imputeth to the author. It is good also, not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...unlooked 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 - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 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,...imputeth it to the author. It is good also not to tiy experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware... | |
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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. 
