 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 Seiten
...his private secretary, when he indited the following reply to the sticklers against " innovation:" " All institutions and ordinances, be they never so pure, will corrupt and degenerate. But I would ask why the civil state should be purged and restored, by good and wholesome laws, made every... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 Seiten
...knoweth not, that time is truly compared to a stream, that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into th.it salt sea of corruption which environeth all human...corrupt and degenerate. But not to handle this matter commonplace like, I would only ask, why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 Seiten
...the other side, who knoweth not that time is truly compared to a stream that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which...his industry, virtue, and policy, as it were with an oar, row against the stream and inclination of time ; all institutions and ordinances, be they never... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 Seiten
...the other side, who knoweth not that time is truly compared to a stream that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which...all human actions. And therefore if man shall not by bis industry, virtue, and policy, as it were with an oar, row against the stream and inclination of... | |
 | Robert Lee - 1864 - 238 Seiten
..."Who knoweth not," he says, "that time is truly compared to a stream, that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which...they never so pure, will corrupt and degenerate. But I would only ask why the civil state should be purged and restored by good and wholesome laws, made... | |
 | Orby Shipley - 1866 - 576 Seiten
...this, have been numbered witjh the dead. H. HUMBLE. Catfcefcral Reform, " IF a man," said Lord Bacon, " shall not by his industry, virtue, and policy, as it were, with an oar row against the stream and inclination of time, all institutions and ordinances, be they never... | |
 | Church - 1866 - 568 Seiten
...must, ere this, have been numbered with the dead. H. HUMBLE. lUforni. " IF a man," said Lord Bacon, " shall not by his industry, virtue, and policy, as it were, with an oar row against the stream and inclination of time, all institutions and ordinances, be they never... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 Seiten
...brook Into the main of waters. (Mer. Ven. vi) Time is compared to a stream that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which environeth all human actions. (On Pacification of the Church.) Say, shall the current of our right run on 1 Whose passage, vexed... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 236 Seiten
...If man shall not by his industry, virtue, and polity, as it were with the oar row against the stream of time, all institutions and ordinances, be they never so pure, will corrupt and degenerate. Why should the civil state be restored by good laws every third or fourth year, and the ecclesiastical... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 Seiten
...If man shall not by his industry, virtue, and polity, as it were with the oar row against the stream of time, all institutions and ordinances, be they never so pure, will corrupt and degenerate. Why should the civil state be restored by good laws every third or fourth year, and the ecclesiastical... | |
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But on the other side, who knoweth not, that time is truly compared to a stream, that carrieth down fresh and pure waters into that salt sea of corruption which environeth all human actions ? And therefore, if man shall not by his industry, virtue, and... 
