| James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 oldal
...give advice to a statesman, and it is such advice as statesmen from age to age may listen to : — " Watch what main currents draw the years : Cut Prejudice...against the grain : But gentle -words are always gain : Regard the weakness of thy peers." And if we could but remember that line in italics always to act... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1866 - 398 oldal
...Reverence, fly Before her to whatever sky Bear seed of men and growth of minds. Watch what main-currents draw the years : Cut Prejudice against the grain : But gentle words are always gain : Regard the weakness of thy peers : Nor toil for title, place, or touch Of pension, neither count... | |
| James Kent - 1866 - 786 oldal
...that " it were good if men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, wlu'ch, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived." By the statute of 3 and 4 William IV. c. 27, all real and mixed actions, except the writ of right of... | |
| John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 oldal
...old times are but a scorn to the new. It were good therefore that men, in their innovations should follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth...but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived ; for otherwise whatever is new is unlocked for, and ever it mends some and mars others ; and he that... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 oldal
...times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good there- [5] fore that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth...but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived : for It is true whatever is established has a presumption on its side ; that is, the burden of proof... | |
| 1868 - 834 oldal
...in building) a toothing or aptitude for another." " It were good that men in their innovations would follow the example of Time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarcely to be perceived." EDITORIAL. WE surrender a considerable proportion of the present number... | |
| Lindley Spring - 1868 - 256 oldal
...Bacon, in one of his essays, says:—" r lt were good, therefore, that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, •which, indeed, innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by means scarce to be perceived." Our legislators, however, are superior to instruction. Time is an old... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1868 - 402 oldal
...Reverence, fly Before her to whatever sky Bear seed of men and growth of minds. Watch what main-currents draw the years : Cut Prejudice against the grain : But gentle words are always gain : Regard the weakness of thy peers : Nor toil for title, place, or touch Of pension, neither count... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 oldal
...It were good therefore, that Men in their Innovations, would follow the Example of Time it selfe ; which indeed Innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees, scarce to be perceived : For otherwise, whatsoever is New, is unlocked for ; And ever it mends Some, and paires Other: And... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 oldal
...alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?' ' It were good that men, in their innovations, would follow the example of Time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly \ but quietly and T)y degrees scarce to be perceived? There is no more striking instance of the silent and imperceptible... | |
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