 | Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1869 - 304 pages
...unanswerable objection urged against all improvement. We have already quoted the dictum of Bacon — that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. This was not the opinion of Ignatius Loyola, who, in order to avoid any innovation in the shape of... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1869 - 392 pages
...unanswerable objection urged against all improvement. We have already quoted the dictum of Bacon — that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation. This was not the opinion of Ignatius Loyola, who in order to avoid any innovation in the shape of his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 678 pages
...true, if Time flood flill; which contrariwife moueth fo round, that a Froward 15 Retention of Cuf:ome, is as turbulent a Thing, as an Innovation : And they that Reverence too much Old Times, are but a i->come to the New. It were good therefore, that Men in their Innouatioqs, would follow the Example... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1874 - 880 pages
...4 1 Com. by Broom & Hadley 60. be in itself consistent with legal analogies."1 Nay, it is even true that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new."2 1 Judgra., Gosling c. Veley, 7 QB 441 (53 ECLR) ; per Lord Denman, CJ, 10 QB 950. ! Bacon's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...Gosling e. Veley, 7 Queen's Bench, 441 (1847). Nickells v. Atherstone, 10 Queen's Bench, 950 (1847). froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new." ESSAY XXV. p. 267, 1. 11.—The conjunction "because" is used in a remarkable manner, now quite obsolete,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round,2 that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovate th greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for, otherwise, whatsoever... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 860 pages
...strangers, more admired and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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...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... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - Church history - 1876 - 400 pages
...contemplative prince whom he was wont to claim as his exemplar. The greatest radical of his time, he knew that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...too much old times, are but a scorn to the new*." He had taught the world explicitly that it was not a republic, but a great kingdom like the kingdoms... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - Church history - 1876 - 432 pages
...contemplative prince whom he was wont to claim as his exemplar. The greatest radical of his time, he knew that "a froward retention of custom is as turbulent...reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new3." He had taught the world explicitly that it was not a republic, but a great kingdom like the... | |
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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. 
