 It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.  The Pamphleteer - Page 321edited by - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Parliament proc, Will. iv - 1832 - 890 pages
...nothing. It was another rule of Lord Bacon's, that care should be taken, that thé reformation bring about the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation. Now, what have ministers here done ? A cry is got up for reform, 420 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. which, as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, end not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : and, lastly, that the novelty, though... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...innovations, and I also believe it is ill to try experiments in states, unless the need be urgent, and unless it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the love of change that urgeth the reformation. Is not Time the greatest innovator?—is he not always... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...experiments in states except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." The desire to change he always regarded with great jealousy. He knew that in its worst form it is the... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 464 pages
...good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect : and, as the Scripture... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - Great Britain - 1835 - 474 pages
...good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that...on the change ; and not the desire of change that preteudeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 400 pages
...experiments in states except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident; and well to beware that it is the reformation that draweth on the change and not...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation." The desire to change he always regarded with great jealousy. He knew that in its worst form it is the... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...is good not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not desire of change that pretendeth the reformation : that novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - Great Britain - 1837 - 284 pages
...except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and to take good care, that it be the desire of reformation that draweth on the change, and not the...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.'" — " Exactly what I think," said Lord Chesterton ; " so I do not give myself much concern on the subject.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that...desire of change that pretendeth the reformation. And lastly, that the novelty, though it be not rejected, yet be held for a suspect; and, as the Scripture... | |
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