 ... whether thou didst not best at first. Neglect not also the examples of those, that have carried themselves ill in the same place : not to set off thyself by taxing their memory ; but to direct thyself what to avoid. Reform therefore, without bravery...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 264by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...direct thyself what i Sen. Thyeit. ii. 401. ' Gen. i. 31. to avoid. Reform therefore without bravery or scandal of former times and persons; but yet set it...well to create good precedents as to follow them. If educe things to the first institution, and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...to scorn. 16. In evil, the best condition is, not to will: the next, not to can. 17. In great place, nate in compounding differences. His son undertook 18. As in nature things move more violently to their place, and calmly in their place : so virtue in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself what to avoid. Reform, therefore, without bravery8 or scandal of former times and persons; but yet set it...times — of the ancient time what is best, and of the later time what is fittest. Seek 1 ' Death falls heavily upon him, who, too well known to all men,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...the other; and avoid not only the fault, but the suspicion." l He says again, in the same Essay : " Set it down to thyself, as well to create good precedents as to follow them." But the allegation that it was a custom of the times requires examination. It was a custom of the times... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...forgetting that all together will ruin you.' (Page 84.) H a 'Reform, therefore, without bravery or scandal of former times and persons ; but yet set...well to create good precedents as to follow them.' ' To warn a public man (says the author of The Bishop] of ordinary sense, against innovation, is just... | |
 | 1857 - 784 pages
...— He who the most attentively marks providences will have the most providences to mark. — Flavel. ASK COUNSEL of both times— of the ancient time what is best, and of the later time what is fittest. — Bacon, VEGETATION IN ТТГЕ Am. — The idea, riot long since, occurred... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...therefore, without Bravery or Scandal of former Times and Perfons ; but yet fet it down to thyfelf, as well to create good Precedents as to follow them. Reduce things to the firft Inftitution, and obferve wherein and how they have degenerate : but yet afk Counfel of both Times... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...by taxing their memory, but to direct thyself what to avoid. Reform, therefore, without bravery8 or scandal of former times and persons ; but yet set...but yet ask counsel of both times — of the ancient 1 ' Death falls heavily upon him, who, too well known to all men, dies unacquainted with himself.'—... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...but to direct thyself what to avoid. Reform therefore, without bravery ' or scandal of former tunes and persons ; but yet set it down to thyself as well...institution, and observe wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask counsel of both times ; of the ancient time, what is best ; and of the latter... | |
 | Patrick Fairbairn - 1858 - 508 pages
...and feelings. — We might say substantially the same of another example in Bacon : " In great place, ask counsel of both times — Of the ancient time,...what is best; and of the latter time, what is fittest :" — quite natural and orderly as it stands, but incapable of being improved by being drawn out into... | |
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