 | 1859 - Liczba stron: 578
...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 - Liczba stron: 584
...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 - Liczba stron: 750
...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 - Liczba stron: 650
...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 - Liczba stron: 720
...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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - Liczba stron: 480
...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;2 and those things which have long gone together, are as it were confederate within themselves... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - Liczba stron: 408
...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...together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves ; 2 whereas new things piece not so well ; but, though they help by their utility, yet they trouble... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - Liczba stron: 630
...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...they trouble by their inconformity ;' besides, they arc like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - Liczba stron: 728
...of themselves without a rival. them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what i« settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least...they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their incontbrmity. Besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favoured. All this is true, if... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - Liczba stron: 352
...many cases leads to opposition. Every discovery and invention is by its very nature an innovation. " Those things which have long gone together, are as...utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity." Slavish discipleship to ancient masters and to great names is another source of opposition to discovery.... | |
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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 long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves: whereas new things piece not so well* but though they help by their... 
