 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils ; foy time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...a natural motion strongest in continuance; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...most that succeed ; so the first precedent (if it be good) is seldom attained by imitation. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 888 pages
...be what it may, we .answer their accusation in the words of one of the wisest of mankind *: " That time is the greatest innovator ; and if time, of course, alter •things for the worse, and if wisdom and counsel ahall not alter them for the better, what shall be the end... | |
 | Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - Ethics - 1822 - 412 pages
...as time and experience may render necessary. " He that will not apply new remedies," says Bacon, " must expect new evils : for time is the greatest innovator,...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" It is this that is meant by bringing a constitution frequently back to its first principles; though... | |
 | William Clarke Somerville - France - 1822 - 412 pages
...against the causes of the national grievances. "If time," says the father of modern philosophy, "shall alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...alter them to the better, what shall be the end?" Whether it was then too late for alteration or not, is a question which can never be determined. But... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will...apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is VOL, in. G the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will...apply new remedies must expect new evils ; for time is VOL. in. u the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...natural motion strongest in continuance ; but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils." — To me it seems that there is not any resemblance ; but, if 1 am in error, it is not from a casual... | |
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Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what... 
