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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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Sketches, Essays and Translations

Francis Walker Gilmer - Economics - 1828 - 214 pages
...VINDICATION, &c. " It is good also not to try experiments in states, except " the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to " beware, that...desire of change that pretendeth the (' reformation." 2*^ BACOW. THE general adoption of analytick reasoning has produced a great change in the conduct of...
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The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 3

Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - Theology - 1828 - 756 pages
...also," says Bacon, " not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility be evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." They who complain of wise saws, and of what Cicero calls ignavae rationes, in Bacon's Essay upon Innovation,...
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The Works of Hannah More, Volume 4

Hannah More - Children - 1830 - 536 pages
...AND MANNERS, Jfordan anU JDomwttc : REFLECTIONS ON PRAYER. Let us make a stand on the ancient ways, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and walk in it Lord BACON on InnovationI know not which is the greater wonder, either that prayer, which...
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Would reform in parliament be a benefit to the country?

Great Britain - 1830 - 78 pages
...TO THE COUNTRY? 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 which draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the Reformation. — LORD...
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Speech of Spencer Perceval ... on the Reform bill, with a letter to the ...

Spencer Perceval - 1831 - 60 pages
...of Lord Bacon's is this : " That care be taken that it should be the reformation that bringeth about the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." Now, Sir, how stands the matter with this Bill ? A cry is got up for reform, which, as no two people...
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The Jurist, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Volume 3

Great Britain - 1832 - 496 pages
...scandal 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 be the reformation that draweth qn the change, and not desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be...
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The speeches in both houses of parliament, on the question of reform in the ...

Parliament proc, Will. iv - 1832 - 890 pages
...nothing. It was another rule of Lord Bacon's, that care should be taken, that thé reformation bring about the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation. Now, what have ministers here done ? A cry is got up for reform, 420 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. which, as...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 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 be the reformation that draweth on the change, end not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : and, lastly, that the novelty, though...
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The Buccaneer: A Tale, Volume 1

Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...innovations, and I also believe it is ill to try experiments in states, unless the need be urgent, and unless it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the love of change that urgeth the reformation. Is not Time the greatest innovator?—is he not always...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...experiments in states except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." The desire to change he always regarded with great jealousy. He knew that in its worst form it is the...
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