 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...trouble by their unconformity: besides, they are like strangers, more admired 7 and. less favoured. All this is true, if Time stood still: which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention 8 of custom is as turbulent 9 a thing as an Innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...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...that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to 25 the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...trouble by their inconformity : besides, they are like strangers, more admired7 and less favoured. All this is true, if Time stood still : which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention3 of custom is as turbulent9 a thing as an Innovation ; and they that reverence too much old... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pages
...they trouble by their inconformity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still, which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a frovvard retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 164 pages
...of veneration for the past, and desire for progress, on the character of societies and individuals. 'A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' — Bacon, Is genius correctly denned as a ' transcendent capacity for taking trouble ' ? XLIX. LI.... | |
 | Palaestra Oxoniensis - 1879 - 150 pages
...veneration for the past, and desire for progress, on the character of societies and individuals. XLIX. 'A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' — Bacon. Is genius correctly denned as a ' transcendent capacity for taking trouble ' ? LI. Trial... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...v. Atherstone, 10 Queen's Bench, 950 (1847). Nay it is even true as Lord Bacon remarks in the text that " a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." ESSAY XXV. p. 267, L 11. — The conjunction ''because" is used in a remarkable manner, now quite obsolete,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...others have made the same reflections, it is possible they may have drawn those uses from it. ADD1SON. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they lhat reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Association - 1881 - 540 pages
...Chairman. Report of Committee on Medical Jurisprudence. CH BOARUMAN, CHAIRMAN. MEDICAL EXPERT TESTIMONY. "A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing...old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, then-fun', that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself; which indeed innovnteth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived, and we are to remember that Time moveth so round that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation It will appear almost incredible to modern readers that Bacon should have contemplated the possibility... | |
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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. 
