| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 páginas
...trouhle .hy their inconformity. Besides, they are like strangers, more lilmired and less favoured. AH this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round that a froward retention of cortain is as turhulent a thing as an innovation, and they that reverence too much old times are hut... | |
| John Kentish - 1846 - 444 páginas
...apposite paraphrase of it than in Lord Bacon's Essay on Innovations; especially in the sentence, " They that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." XI. 9. " Rejoice, &c.—but know thou, that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgment."]... | |
| John Noake - 1848 - 396 páginas
...on him to interpose his veto in cases of uncalled-for revivals, on the principle of my Lord Bacon, that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...as an innovation, and they that reverence too much of old times are but a scorn to the new;" still I have no reason to believe that his lordship can smell... | |
| Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 páginas
...lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer." — SHAKESPEARE. " They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new." — LORD BACON. We rarely find people ready to accept of innovations without a struggle. History affords... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - 372 páginas
...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 froward retention ol custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too nyich old times are... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...trouble by their inconformity : besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. reign, that deserveth the dedication of all men's abilities. Besides I do not find in myself so much theji that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
| University magazine - 1851 - 822 páginas
...generalisation !) — then warns the fearful that " he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils ;" that a " froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ;" and sums up a wisdom, that is surely divine, in the one advice worthy of a Socrates, a Thomas a-Kempis,... | |
| 1851 - 626 páginas
...lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly beap'd For truth to over-peer." — SHAKESPEARE. " They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new." — LORD BACON. Uattn Interfecto Julio, utrum Roma; profuit quod unus Augustus imperio nactus est.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...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...that reverence too much Old Times, are but a Scorn there is no fuch gain of Time, as to iterate often the State of the ^uejlion : for it chafeth away... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 páginas
...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 fro ward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too... | |
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