 | James Silk Buckingham - 1853 - 588 sivua
...Parliamentary appreciation, when he says, " A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." The motion was opposed by Lord Althorp, on the part of the Government, and several others ; but, on... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sivua
...trouble by their inconformity ;• besides, they are like strangers, more 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 a thing as an innovation ; and they that... | |
 | Matthew Davenport Hill - 1857 - 748 sivua
...we must for all practical purposes fall back. Of the arguments against novelties, Lord Bacon says, 'All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise,...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... | |
 | 1857 - 652 sivua
...* besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if time ttood still, which contrariwise moveth so round .}• that...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 - 766 sivua
...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 - 740 sivua
...we must for all practical purposes fall back. Of the arguments against novelties, Lord Bacon says, ' All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise,...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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1857 - 510 sivua
...trouble by their unconformity ; 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 forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sivua
...trouble by their inconformity ;" besides, they are like strangers, more 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 a thing as an innovation ; and they that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 540 sivua
...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,... | |
 | 626 sivua
..." but " How are they to be educated ? " We must remember in this matter the words of Bacon, " Time moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation." Now since we cannot do without education for our officers, the next question is, how is... | |
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All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. 
