 | James Silk Buckingham - Literature - 1843 - 96 pages
...truly has Lord Bacon said, that " Custom is the law of fools ;" and how well does he elsewhere observe, that " A froward retention of Custom is as turbulent a thing as Innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." No doubt this... | |
 | English literature - 1844 - 596 pages
...iradenant et le se asseoira le premier." All this might be so, " if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new." THE FLAG OF ENGLAND. BY LEWIS WAY. THE Flag, the Flag of England — that waved above the host That... | |
 | Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...asseoira le premier." All this might be so, " if time stood still ; which contrariwise, rnoveth so around, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new." CHAPTER XVIIL ODDS AND ENDS. L'homme est vain naturellement. Nous ne nous contentons pas de la vie... | |
 | Opie Staite - Mesmerism - 1844 - 114 pages
...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...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. I know it will be impossible for me, by any pleading of mine, to reverse the judgment of Esop's cock,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...proud monarchy, heretofore acting upon the great text authority of Lord Bacon, that ' it were good if men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, hmovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived'." III. PERSONAL ACTIONS. Having... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...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 as turbulent a thing as an innovation, and they thai reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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 a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,that men in their innovations would follow the example... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...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 as turbulent a thing aa an innovation, and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were goodi... | |
 | John Kentish - Bible - 1846 - 444 pages
...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 - Worcestershire (England) - 1848 - 396 pages
...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... | |
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All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrary wise, 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. 
