 | Francis Scott - Scotland - 1831 - 76 pages
...LONDON: ROAKE AND VARTY, 31, STRAND; HATCHARD & SON, PICCADILLY ; & WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH. 1831. " It were good that men, in their innovations, would...and by degrees scarce to be perceived." — BACON. ROAKE AND VAHTY, PRINTERS, 31, STRAND. 1 A LETTER. MY LORD, ALTHOUGH I have neither the honour of your... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...innovation ; and they that reverence too much olo times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs others ; and... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional law - 1835 - 558 pages
...materials of the closet. But it is well in all cases to remember the wise recommendation of Lord Bacon, " that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." f And nothing can introduce more sobriety of judgment than the experience derived from the history... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 474 pages
...innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived : for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some and impairs others : and... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...serat et metat, sed preparatione opus est ut per gradus maturescant. It were good, says Lord Bacon, that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; like a living spring, constantly flowing into stagnant waters; or the gradual advances of nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...were but to roast their eggs. 38. New things, like strangers, are more admired, and less favoured. 39. 020 40. They that reverence too much old time, are but a scorn to the new. 41. The Spaniards and Spartans... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the example...but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived: for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked for ; and ever it mends some, and impairs others : and... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...progression ;' and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 574 pages
...progression ;' and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
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It were good 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... 
