 | Francis Bacon - 1897 - 448 Seiten
...greatest Innovatour : And if Time, of course8, alter Things to the worse, and Wisedome and Counsell shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the End? It is true that what is setled by Custome, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit". And those 15 Things, which have... | |
 | Virgil - 1898 - 544 Seiten
...rower. The general sense is not unlike Bacon's celebrated sentence (Essay 24), ' If time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? ' Pal. and two cursives have ' et retro. ' [' Sublabsa' Med., Pal., Gud.— HN] 201-203. The constr.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 Seiten
...greatest Innovatour : And if Time, of course, alter Things to the worse, and Wisedome, and Counsell shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the End? It is true, that what is setled by Custome, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit. And those Things, which have long... | |
 | Nathan Elliott Wood - 1903 - 284 Seiten
...greatest innovator ; and if time, of course, alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel should not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?...piece not so well; but, though they help by their 20 utility, yet they trouble by their inconf ormity ; besides, they are like strangers, more admired... | |
 | LUIGI CORNARO - 1915 - 268 Seiten
...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...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? The nature of the spirits is as the uppermost wheel, which turneth about the other wheels in the body... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 Seiten
...time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and 25 counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall...whereas new things piece not so well; but though they too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 Seiten
...apply new remedies must expect new evils. For time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course0 alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? 15 It is true that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit.0 And... | |
 | James Jesse Burns - 1905 - 782 Seiten
...be. conservative. They may be students of Bacon : "What is settled by custom, though it be not good, at least it is fit ; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate in themselves: whereas new things piece not so well." TOWNSHIP SUPERINTENDENTS The often mentioned... | |
 | Hugh Black - 1908 - 320 Seiten
...take from us the task of to-day. " Time is the great innovator," says Bacon, " and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...them to the better, what shall be the end ? " It is a pertinent question to put to those who would tie our hands by senile idolatry of the past, or make... | |
 | Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 Seiten
...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 shall be the end? Ib. (Of Innovation). MONTAIGNE, Lime III, 9. Those things which have long gone together are, as it... | |
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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? 
