 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 Works of Francis Bacon - Page 430by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Leo N. Levi - Antisemitism - 1905 - 354 pages
...JUDAISM IN AMERICA. \ "Beware that it be the reformation that draweth on ._ and not the desire for change that pretendeth the reformation, and lastly...though it be not rejected yet be held for a suspect." It would be easy to show how the greatest minds of every age have reached the conclusion that there... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - English essays - 1907 - 248 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 be...a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about tes, and discover what is the straight and right way, and so to walk in it. ESSAY XXV.— OF DISPATCH... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - English language - 1907 - 520 pages
...emphasis. Thus, — 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...draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that preteudeth the reformation. — BACON. Here, in the first clause, the necessity be urgent is balanced... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 270 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 be...rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as the Scripture e saith, that we make a stand upon the ancient way, and then look about us, and discover what is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 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 be...rejected, yet be held for a suspect ; * and, as the Scrip1 Round, flat adverb, quick, swift; the idea is of an easy, smooth, brisk motion, like that of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 630 pages
...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 be...change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the change " (Bacon). /. 389. Verse i. pillar'd Parthenon. Misprinted "column'd Parthenon." /. 392. To... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1908 - 628 pages
...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 be...change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the change " (Bacon). /. 389. Verse i. pillared Parthenon. Misprinted "column'd Parthenon." /. 392. To... | |
 | Evelyn Baring Earl of Cromer - Egypt - 1908 - 632 pages
.... . It is good also not to try experiments in States except the necessity be urgent, or the utUity evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. BACON, On Innovations. It is singular how long the rotten will hold together provided you do not handle... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...Reformation4. And lastly, that the Novelty, though it be not reiected, yet be held for a Suspect6; And, as the Scripture saith, That we make a stand upon the Ancient Way, and then looks about us, and discover what is 40 the straight and right way, and so to walke in it. XXV OF DISPATCH... | |
 | Fabian Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1908 - 670 pages
...the Necessity be urgent, or the utility evident : and well to beware that it be the reformation th»t draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." — BACON, "On Innovations." The Need. IT is one of the paradoxes of our present stage of democracy... | |
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