 | John Coleman (of Dover.) - Europe - 1851 - 892 pages
...prelendeth the reiormation. And, lastly, that the novelty, though it be not reiected, yet be held ior a suspect; and as the Scripture saith, "That we make...way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it.'" BACOH. ILonfcon : THOMAS HATCHARD, 187, PICCADILLY.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the utility evident, and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."^ The advice he gave respecting Ireland is beyond all praise, and never having steadily been acted upon,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 510 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the utility evident, and well to beware that it is the reformation that drawcth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."* The advice he gave respecting Ireland is beyond all praise, and never having steadily been acted upon,... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 822 pages
...good yet at least it is fit ;" that " statesmen must beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation;" (how happy a phrase!) he lays down the sublime truth, " TlME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR ;" asks with... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...necessity be urgent or the utility evident, and well to beware, that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation^" Even Godwin says, " As to the improvements which are to be introduced into the political system, their... | |
 | 1852 - 598 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the ability evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." — Eaay on Innovations. But the necessity was urgent, and the utility evident to others, if not to... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.' Lord Bacon, Essay on Innovations. Compare the article ' Innovatio,' No. 40 of the antitheta, in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...Qu. Ir. iii. 8. or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth...way and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it.s XXV. OF DISPATCH. Affected dispatch is one of the most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth ) straight and right way, and so to walk in it." XXV. OF DESPATCH. Affected despatch is one of the most... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - Presbyterian Church - 1855 - 330 pages
...the individual, is certainly capable of improvement, and when it is a real " reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation," it is a blind idolatry of the past that resists the innovation. True conservation combines stability... | |
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It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation... 
