 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 páginas
...It is true, that what is fetled by cuftom, though it be not good, yet at leaft it is fit. And thofe things which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themfelves, whereas new things piece not fo well : But though they help by their utility, yet, they... | |
 | 1793 - 76 páginas
...*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?" They will not innovate, but they are no enemies to gradual decay ; as if the changes infenfibly produced... | |
 | Christopher Wyvill - 1794 - 698 páginas
...THAT TIME IS THE GREATEST IN""NOVATOR ; 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 prqpofed by Lord Chatham f, he declared in the Houfe of Lords, that he meant to infufe... | |
 | William Belsham - 1795 - 566 páginas
...new remedies must expect new evils: for TIME is the greatest innovator ; and if Time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 600 páginas
...new remedies must expect new evils : for TIME is the greatest innovator ; and if Time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | James Jopp - 1812 - 460 páginas
...changes in government, and immediately after the expressions just given, continues thus : * •* " It is true, that what is settled by custom, -though...have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within-themselves : wheref£s new things piece not so well ; but though they help by their utility,... | |
 | 1813 - 466 páginas
...evil that can befal a powerful state ; ever remembering the wise remark of Bacon, " That if time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end *." But, whilst the principles of Sydney were thus gloriously maintained by his country, his fate was... | |
 | 1813 - 660 páginas
...expect new evils: for time ia the. greatest innovator : and i I' time, of course, alter all thiuga to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the belter, what shall be the end ?" — This in an argument, I trust, sufficiently strong to justify the... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 440 páginas
...consequences of the general discontents throughvator ; 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 by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 452 páginas
...general discontents throughvator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if v.isclom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end 1" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
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Surely every medicine is an innovation ; and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils : for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what... 
