| Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 756 pages
...course alter these things for the worse, wisdom and good counsel should alter them to the better," and that " a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as sedition." But I also know from the respectable authority of the same writer, that " what is settled... | |
| 1829 - 510 pages
...institutions above all improvement, and says, — ' A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.' Keally, if the writings of the ancients are to be ransacked in support of measures, and with reference... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrariwise moveth so round, thai a froward retention ol custom is as turbulent a. thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much olo times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would... | |
| 1835 - 444 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 is as turbulent a thing as innovation ; and they that reverence too much old things, are but a scorn to the newt.' * We do not... | |
| Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 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 tcf avoid any innovation in the shape of... | |
| Ephraim Banks - 1838 - 436 pages
...strangers, more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still, which contrarywise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom...innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, arc but a scorn to the new." The length of the chapter prevents me quoting it; I shall however quote... | |
| 1838 - 574 pages
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
| 1838 - 728 pages
...and in that progression to regulate her changes by the maxim of the same great man : ' It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example...indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived.' With the same Lord Bacon — (and we quote him, not as a supreme authority... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...purified, and that the change •was not only just, but necessary. Dr. Butler was of Lord Bacon's opinion, that " a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation ;" though, to use his own words, " he hoped that the priming-knife would be used with a... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1828 - 566 pages
...peace-maker who thinks anything better than controversy. Many of them are yet to learn from Lord Bacon, that ' a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation.' It \vas natural to suppose that infidels would favor religious liberty, but they have commonly been... | |
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