 | 1793 - 76 sidor
...*THAT TIME " IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR ; " AND IF TIME OF COURSE ALTER " THINGS TO THE WORSE, AND IF « WISDOM AND COUNSEL SHALL " NOT ALTER THEM TO THE " BETTER, WHAT SHALL BE THE « END?" They will not innovate, but they are no enemies to gradual decay ; as if the changes infenfibly produced... | |
 | Christopher Wyvill - 1794 - 698 sidor
...THAT TIME IS THE GREATEST IN""NOVATOR ; AND IF TIME OF COURSE " ALTER THINGS TO THE WORSE, AND " IF WISDOM AND COUNSEL SHALL NOT " ALTER THEM TO THE BETTER, WHAT " SHALL BE THE END ?" By the Reform prqpofed by Lord Chatham f, he declared in the Houfe of Lords, that he meant to infufe... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 566 sidor
...lord Bacon, with his accustomed sagacity) is not more turbulent than a . froward retention of custom. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 600 sidor
...lord Bacon, with his ao customed sagacity) is not more turbulent than a froward retention of custom. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 sidor
...most that succeed, so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imitation; for ill, to man's nature as it stands perverted, hath a natural...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those... | |
 | George Wilson Meadley - 1813 - 426 sidor
...deadliest evil that can befal a powerful state; ever remembering the wise remark of Bacon, " That if time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end *." But, whilst the principles of Sydney were thus gloriously maintained by his country, his fate was... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 sidor
...most that succeed, so the first precedent, (if it be good,) is seldom attained by imitation ; for ill, to man's nature as it stands perverted, hath a natural...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit : and those... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 440 sidor
...consequences of the general discontents throughvator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 452 sidor
...general discontents throughvator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if v.isclom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end 1" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 sidor
...most that succeed ; so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained bj imitation. For ill to man's nature, as it stands perverted, hath a natural...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those... | |
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Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what... 
