| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...motion strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end 1 It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit ; and those... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 páginas
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| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1842 - 584 páginas
...intention be what it may, we answer their accusation in the words of one of the wisest of mankind :* " 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 ?" By the reform proposed... | |
| Richard Brinsley B. Sheridan - 1842 - 588 páginas
...be what it may, we answer their accusation in the words of one of the wisest of mankind :• " 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?" By the reform proposed... | |
| 1855 - 664 páginas
...nations ; an important remedy for old evils, and preventive1 of new. As Lord Bacon has well remarked, " He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new...evils, for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time alter things to die worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be... | |
| 1844 - 686 páginas
...cruel bereavement. He lives yet, I believe, in one of the hospitals in New York. SURELT every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? — Bacon. 286 THE FRENZY OF LOYK O rif-ini I. THE FRENZY OF LOVE THE CONTRAST. IT was some months... | |
| Opie Staite - 1844 - 114 páginas
...coxcomical; yet his lordship's works are sadly neglected by some of our schoolmen. " Every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. A froward retention of a custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too... | |
| Materials - 1846 - 478 páginas
...circumstances and mode of life can effect it. — Dr. Priestley. Innovations. — Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? — Bacon. DLXXVI. Character. — How different is the human mind according to the difference of... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 páginas
...motion, strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter * Lovers of themselves without a rival. them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that... | |
| 1848 - 594 páginas
...the only safe course, indeed, whether in peaceful or turbulent times ; for as Bacon wisely says, ' If time, of course, alter things to the ' worse, and...alter them to the ' better, what shall be the end?' But it is especially incumbent on statesmen in turbulent times to take this course; for the people... | |
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