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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. "
Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One - Page 118
by Francis Bacon - 1820 - 539 pages
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 pages
...experiments in states except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." The desire to change he always regarded with great jealousy. He knew that in its worst form it is the...
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 pages
...is good 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 desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be...
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Social Evils: And Their Remedy, Volume 1

Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1837 - 284 pages
...except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and to take good care, that it be the desire of reformation that draweth on the change, and not the...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.'" — " Exactly what I think," said Lord Chesterton ; " so I do not give myself much concern on the subject....
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...the straight and right way, and so to walk in it." XXV. OF DESPATCH. Affected despatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It...
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Speech of Ephraim Banks, Esq., of Mifflin: Delivered in the Convention, to ...

Ephraim Banks - 1838 - 436 pages
...from scripture r "That we make a stand upon the. ancient way, and look about us, and discover which is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it." Unfortunately, most innovations have beenattended with violence, they are almost considered as inseparable:...
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Church discipline and national education, a charge delivered to the clergy ...

Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.) - 1839 - 340 pages
...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...change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation."—Lord Bacon, Essay 29. Of Innovations. supersede the necessity of inspection by strangers,...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation i Lovers of themselves without a rival. that draweth on the change, and not the desire of...reformation; and lastly, that the novelty, though it Ъе not rejected, yet be held for a suspect ; and, as the Scripture sail b, " That we make a stand...
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Hints to Teachers in National Schools: Selected from Modern Works on ...

Henry Hopwood - 1841 - 206 pages
...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...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." Indeed, I believe it will be found that our first and greatest improvement will consist, not in the...
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London, Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 pages
...they suggest ; and these do not always lie upon the surface. To comprehend modern London we must ' make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us ; ' to be properly interested in ancient London we must turn from our old Chroniclers, and Topographers,...
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The playfellow, Volume 3

Harriet Martineau - 1841 - 364 pages
...they suggest ; and these do nol always lie upon the surface. To comprehend modern London, we must ' make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us ;' to be properly interested in ancient London, we must turn from our old Chroniclers and Topographers,...
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