 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 pages
...and impairs others. 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^" Even Godwin says, " As to the improvements which are to be introduced into the political system, their... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...scarce to be perceived 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.' Lord Bacon, Essay on Innovations. Compare the article ' Innovatio,' No. 40 of the antitheta, in the... | |
 | 1852 - 598 pages
...perceived. . It is good also nut to try experiments m states, except the necessity be urgent, or the ability evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." — Eaay on Innovations. But the necessity was urgent, and the utility evident to others, if not to... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 722 pages
...reputation affected. "It is good not to try experiments in ' States, unless the necessity be urgent, or the ' utility evident; and well to beware, that...' the reformation that draweth on the change, and * England alone excludes our Teasels and seamen rom the trade opened between her West India colonies... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1854 - 720 pages
...reputation affected. ''It is good not to try experiments in ' States, unless the necessity be urgent, or the ' utility evident; and well to beware, that it be ' the reformation that draweth OD the change, and * England alone excludes our vessels and seamen rom the trade opened between her... | |
 | James Henley Thornwell - Presbyterian Church - 1855 - 330 pages
...novelty. But society, like the individual, is certainly capable of improvement, and when it is a real " reformation that draweth on the change, and not the...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation," it is a blind idolatry of the past that resists the innovation. True conservation combines stability... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect,2 and, as the Scripture saith, " That we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...soul ?'— Wickliff's Translation of Mark viii. periments 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 pretendeth1 the reformation : and lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...veteribui »on usquequaque tarn concinne coAcerfanl. 4 in corporibui politicil mtdendit. VOL. VI. FF the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be...held for a suspect ; and, as the Scripture saith, ////// we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover what is the straight... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...WickliiFs Translation of Mark viii. . I • experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware, that...draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth1 the reformation : and lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held... | |
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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. 
