| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that drawcth on the change; and not the desire of change that pretendeth...it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, ns the Scripture saith, "that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...impairs others. 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...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." Even Godwin says, "As to the improvements which are to be introduced into the political system, their... | |
| Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...the new, he says, " It is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or fear to be known, lest the tyrant should have a new...attempt upon me ; the other of grief and disdain t desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be... | |
| 1850 - 478 pages
...necessity be argent, or the atility be evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation (hat draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.' LORD BACON. PB byddai rhyw un o ganol teyrnas Ava, neu ry w wr cyfrifol o blith paganiaid gwaraidd... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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...change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth 4 the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect"... | |
| John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 pages
...prelendeth the reiormation. And, lastly, that the novelty, though it be not reiected, yet be held ior a suspect; and as the Scripture saith, "That we make...way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it.'" BACOH. ILonfcon : THOMAS HATCHARD, 187, PICCADILLY.... | |
| University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...settled by time, though it be not good yet at least it is fit ;" that " statesmen must beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change, and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation;" (how happy a phrase!) he lays down the sublime truth, " TlME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR ;" asks with... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...experiments in states except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident, and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change, and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."^ The advice he gave respecting Ireland is beyond all praise, and never having steadily been acted upon,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; land well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth...way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and SG to walk in it." XXV. OF DESPATCH. AFFECTED despatch is one of the... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...to be perceived 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...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.' Lord Bacon, Essay on Innovations. Compare the article ' Innovatio,' No. 40 of the antitheta, in the... | |
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