| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 páginas
...is true, that what is fettled by Cuftom, though it be not good, yet at leaft it is fit ; and thofe Things which have long gone together are, as it were, confederate within themfelves ; whereas new Things piece not fo well ; but though they help by their utility, yet they... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 páginas
...least it is fit ; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate with themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well...their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity f besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 páginas
...course_alj£r,jthn)gs[ 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 fit2 ; and those things which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 páginas
...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 fit2 ; and those things which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves... | |
| 1859 - 578 páginas
...emendations where no clear title can be shown, will contend in vain. For ' it is true,' says Bacon, ' that what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves.' Therefore the benefit of every doubt is due, we conceive, to the established reading. Mr. Dyce has... | |
| 1859 - 650 páginas
...emendations, where no clear title can be shown, will contend in vain. For ' it is true,' says Bacon, ' that what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves.' Therefore the benefit of every doubt is due, we conceive, to the established reading. Mr. Dyce has... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...emendations where no clear title can be shown, will contend in vain. For ' it is true,' says Bacon, ' that what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves.' Therefore the benefit of every doubt is due, we conceive, to the established reading. Mr. Dyce has... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 páginas
...emendations where no clear title can be shown, will contend in vain. For ' it is true,' says Bacon, ' that what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves.' Therefore the benefit of every doubt is due, we conceive, to the established reading. Mr. Dyce has... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...emendations where no clear title can be shown, will contend in vain. For ' it is true,' says Bacon, ' that what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves.' Therefore the benefit of every doubt is due, we conceive, to the established reading. Mr. Dyce has... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 páginas
...them to the better, what shall be the end ? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it he not good, yet at least it is fit. And those things...confederate within themselves, whereas new things piece-not so well ; but though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity.... | |
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