 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 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,... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 sivua
...unanswerable objection urged against all improvement. We have already quoted the dictum of Bacon—that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. This was not the opinion of Ignatius Loyola, who, in order to avoid any innovation in the shape of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 sivua
...they 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, that a 1 Ita rerum exemplarin et primonlia (quando feliciter jacta mat) imitationem cctatu tequentu utplurimam... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 578 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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 sivua
...so round that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation, and they thai reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the...therefore, that men in their innovations would follow the exam pie of time itself, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees, scarce to be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 sivua
...they 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, that a 1 Ita rerum exemplaria et primardia (quando feliciter jacta sunt) imitatimem cetatis sequentis utplurimum... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 492 sivua
...for gets the less thanks from him whom it helps, and gives the more annoyance to him whom it hurts. 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 284 sivua
...caprice, our opinion of him is the reverse. But, on the other hand, we are told by a high authority, that " a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation, and that a courting of public notice by a too close adherence to old fashions is as great an evil as a... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sivua
...they 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 that a forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 sivua
...trouble by their inconformity : besides, they are like strangers, more admired [4] and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froNew things are like strangers, fyc. : Bacon has omitted to notice, that there are in most languages... | |
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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. 
