 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...ihe 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 on the change, and not desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...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 on the change, and not desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Walker Gilmer - Interest - 1828 - 206 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 it...desire of change that pretendeth the " reformation." BACOIT. THE general adoption of analytick reasoning has produced a great change in the conduct of all... | |
 | Jesse Burton Harrison - American literature - 1828 - 100 pages
...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 be...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1830 - 78 pages
...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 BACOS. LONDON: J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY. 7' 1830. WOULD REFORM IN PARLIAMENT BE... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 496 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 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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