 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...  Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 76by John Timbs - 1829 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Jopp - 1812 - 460 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 to the worse, ' and if wisdom and counsel shall not alter theyi . ' to the better, what shall be the end * /" " • •... | |
 | George Wilson Meadley - 1813 - 426 pages
...deadliest evil that can befal a powerful state; ever remembering the wise remark of Bacon, " That if time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end *." But, whilst the principles of Sydney were thus gloriously maintained by his country, his fate was... | |
 | 1813 - 660 pages
...expect new evils: for time ia the. greatest innovator : and i I' time, of course, alter all thiuga to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the belter, what shall be the end ?" — This in an argument, I trust, sufficiently strong to justify the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 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... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 440 pages
...consequences of the general discontents throughvator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - 452 pages
...general discontents throughvator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if v.isclom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end 1" By the reform proposed by Lord Chatham,* he declared in the house of lords, that he meant to infuse... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 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... | |
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