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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. "
The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ... - Page 54
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853
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Memoirs, Anecdotes, Facts, and Opinions, Volume 2

Laetitia Matilda Hawkins - Authors, English - 1824 - 444 pages
...whom we have quoted once before *, Lord Bacon, in order * Essay on Innovation. He likewise says, " and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, to show what were his ideas on the subject. He tells us, it is good also not to try experiments in...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...it to the author. 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...and, as the Scripture saith, " That we " make a stand upVi the ancient way, and then look " about us, and discover what is the straight and " right way,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...it to the author. 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...a suspect ; and, as the Scripture saith, " That we 11 make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look * about us, and discover what is the straight and...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

Great Britain - 1825 - 546 pages
...cogently remarks : — " 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...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." It is truly observed by the author of Eikon Basilike, "that the devil of rebellion doth most commonly...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 25

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1825 - 544 pages
...cogently remarks : — " 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...draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that prelendeth the reforn>a-> tion." It is truly observed by the author of Eikon Basilike, " that the devil...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...to the new, he says, " It is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it...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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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 5

Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
...that pretendeth tbe reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be always suspected : and, as the Scripture saith, ' that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about as, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk b it*(y) From the resistance by...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...to the new — says, ' It is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it...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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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 5

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1826 - 538 pages
...is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident r and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and riot desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet...
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A Discourse on the Prospects of Letters and Taste in Virginia ..., Volume 148

Jesse Burton Harrison - American literature - 1828 - 100 pages
...admonition of Lord Bacon,* that "it is good not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." It might be shown, also, I think, that the instruction of the people is clearly one of those great...
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