 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...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 things which have... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1853 - 324 pages
...reduce to the order and dimensions in which they now appear. " If time," says Lord Bacon, " alter all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall...alter them to the better, what shall be the end?" In the Greek Church, whose matters are not so well managed as those of Rome, her liturgical services,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...as, aliment. Alter, another ; as, alter, alternate, altercation. "If time of course alter all tilings to the worse, and wisdom .and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?"— Bacon. Altus, high ; as, exalt, altar. " All is the gift of industry ; whate'er Exalts, embellishes,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...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,...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 things which have... | |
 | E O. S - 1854 - 598 pages
...the Diet. These allusions were intended for the Esterhazy's, Palffy's, Apponyi's, &c., * " If time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?"—Bacon ; Essay on Innovations, " While the foundation and principle of a government remain good,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...strongest in continuance, but good, as a forced motion, strongest at first. Surely, every medicine 1 is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...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 things which... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...grow, and who know neither their beginning nor progress. — Bruyere. CCCXCV. Every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? — Lord Bacon. CCCXCVL It is a short step from modesty to humility ; but t shorter one from vanity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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...is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alters things to1 the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 176 pages
...accomplish or require to be administered. "Time is the greatest innovation; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall...not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ?" The truth of this celebrated axiom of Bacon, even Machiavel, (the ingenious architect of monarchical... | |
 | Psychiatry - 1857 - 652 pages
...when he came upon them from the hill-top took them quite by surprise. 6. Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies...is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alters things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be... | |
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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... 
