 | 1793 - 76 pages
...*THAT TIME " IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR ; " 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?" They will not innovate, but they are no enemies to gradual decay ; as if the changes infenfibly produced... | |
 | Christopher Wyvill - 1794 - 698 pages
...THAT TIME IS THE GREATEST IN""NOVATOR ; 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 prqpofed by Lord Chatham f, he declared in the Houfe of Lords, that he meant to infufe... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 566 pages
...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 shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | John Feltham - 1799 - 146 pages
...^> ly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. H. If 'time, of course, alter things for the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them for the better, what shall be the end ? in. It is a strange thing, that in sea-voyages, where there... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 600 pages
...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 shall be the end ?" — " There is (as Helvetius observes) a description of men with hearts incapable of virtuous emotion,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Agriculture - 1813 - 466 pages
...befal a powerful state ; ever remembering the wise remark of Bacon, " That if time alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall 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... | |
 | Military art and science - 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
...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 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 - Great Britain - 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... | |
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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... 
