| 1793 - Страниц: 76
...*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 - Страниц: 698
...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 - 1795 - Страниц: 566
...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,... | |
| William Belsham - 1805 - Страниц: 600
...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,... | |
| James Jopp - 1812 - Страниц: 460
...changes in government, and immediately after the expressions just given, continues thus : * •* " It is true, that what is settled by custom, -though...have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within-themselves : wheref£s new things piece not so well ; but though they help by their utility,... | |
| 1813 - Страниц: 466
...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... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1816 - Страниц: 440
...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 - Страниц: 452
...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... | |
| 1818 - Страниц: 594
...By Jeremy Bentham, Esq. 8vo. pp. 406. Hunter. London, 1817. " IT is true," says the great Bacon, " that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is 111 . And those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves... | |
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