 | Bertha Meriton Cordery Gardiner, James Surtees Phillpotts, B. Cordery (Meriton) - Great Britain - 1876 - 420 pages
...they trouble by their iuconformity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations...follow the example of time itself, which, indeed, iunovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived, for otherwise whatsoever is... | |
 | Arthur James Mason - Church history - 1876 - 534 pages
...his time, he knew that "a. froward rctcnHnn of mstom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation, ajid they that reverence 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Reference - 1877 - 466 pages
...long gone together are, as it were, confederate within themselves. ... It were good, therefore, if men, in their innovations, would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' Essay on Innovations. Cp. Hooker, Ecc1. Po1., Book i. ch. 10, par. 9, last... | |
 | 1851 - 1006 pages
...generalisation !) — then warns the fearful that " he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils;" that a " froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation;" and sums up a wisdom, that is surely divine, in the one advice worthy of a Socrates, a Thomas a-Kempis,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...favored. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward2 retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an...the example of time itself; which indeed innovateth gready, but quiedy, by degrees scarce to be perceived. For otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlocked... | |
 | Harry Graham - Representative government and representation - 1910 - 416 pages
...TT is true," says Bacon, " that what is settled by custom, 1 though it be not good, at least is fit. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations...itself, which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly." Parliament has certainly acted upon this advice, and nowhere is the steady and silent legislation by... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman - American literature - 1902 - 1042 pages
...mother-tongue without making a fetish of conservatism. " A froward retention of custom," we remember, " is as turbulent a thing as an innovation, and they...reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.'' In such a discussion one should always bear in mind the difference between the language of ordinary... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1228 pages
...are to see that it Is really attained." Lord Bacon is authority for the statement that: "A forward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an Innovation; and they that reverence too much old things are but a scorn to the new." In Ellison v. Georgia R. R. Co., 87 Ga. 696, 13 SE 810, Chief Justice... | |
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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. 
