 | 1804 - 508 pages
...red and Jess favoured. All this is true, if time stood stiy ; which, .contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation: and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore, that... | |
 | James Jopp - Constitutional history - 1812 - 460 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is •as turbulent a thing, as an innovation ; and they * Address to the People of Great Britain. that reverence too much old times are but a scorn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...admired, i i and less favoured. All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 594 pages
...admired and less favoured. All this is true if time stood still ; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing, as an Innovation : and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. Tt were good, therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing, as an Innovation : and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrarywise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore,... | |
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All this is true, if time stood still, which contrariwise moveth so round that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new. 
