| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 578
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round,3 that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived;... | |
| Charles Tennant - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an...therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itsalf, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...true, if Time ftood ftill ; which, contrariwife, moveth fo round, that a froward Retention of Cuftom is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innovation ; and they...therefore, that Men in their Innovations would follow the Example of Time itfelf, which indeed Innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees fcarce to be perceived... | |
| 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if time ttood still, which contrariwise moveth so round .}• that a froward...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. (Essay XXIV. of Innovations.) In all the serious and important affairs of life, men are attached to... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 748
...back. Of the arguments against novelties, Lord Bacon says, 'All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.' But then he calls upon us ' to beware that it be the reformation that drawcth on the change ; and not... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 766
...against novelties. Lord Bacon says, ' All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, movcth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.' But then he calls upon us ' to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change ; and not... | |
| Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...back. Of the arguments against novelties, Lord Bacon says, ' All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a tiling as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.' But... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...Besides, they are like strangers ; more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward...therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...worthier than their descendants, so are the first precedents commonly better than the imitations of them, A froward retention of 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,... | |
| 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...these remarks, we think our readers will all agree with Bacon, that timo is a great innovator, that " moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom...therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself." We commend these philosophical reasonings to the consideration of all those... | |
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