 | 1793 - 76 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...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,... | |
 | 1804 - 508 էջ
...and Jess favoured. All this is true, if time stood stiy ; which, .contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation: and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore, that... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 600 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 an innovation ; and they * Address to the People of Great Britain. that reverence too much old times are but a scorn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 էջ
...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 an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | George Wilson Meadley - 1813 - 426 էջ
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 էջ
...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 an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 440 էջ
...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... | |
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All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. 
