 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...displeasure their descendants ; so are where it harms precedents mostly better than imitations. 7. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. 8. Since of themselves things change for the worse, if by wise counsel we do not change them for the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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, moveth so round, 3 that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as*an innovation ; and they that reverence... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 254 pages
...Nebuchadnezzar's image, — they may cleave, but they will not incorporate. Time is the greatest innovator, which moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Revenge is a kind of wild justice. Adversity is not without its comforts and hopes. We... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...displeasure their descendants ; so are where it harms, precedents mostly better than imitations. 7. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. 8. Since of themselves things change for the worse, if by wise counsel we do not change them for the... | |
 | 1876 - 870 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...a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that man, in these innovations, would follow the example of time himself, which indeed innovateth greatly,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 292 pages
...they trouble by their inconformity : beside, 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 of custom is ESSAY xxiv. as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and Of innovations, they that reverence too much... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 478 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 frovard retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation: and they that reverence too much... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1900 - 404 pages
...The enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. 6. They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. 7. The morning came which was to launch me into the world, and from which my whole succeeding life... | |
 | 1900 - 364 pages
...The enclosed fields, which were generally forty feet square, resembled so many beds of flowers. 6. They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. 7. The morning came which was to launch me into the world, and from which my whole succeeding life... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...trouble, by their Inconformity. Besides, they are like Strangers ; more Admired, and lesse Favoured. All this is true, if Time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a Froward Retention of Custome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innovation : And they that Reverence too much Old Times, are... | |
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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. 
