 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1870 - Liczba stron: 578
...for the worst, and wisdom and council shall not alter them for the better, what shall be the end ? It is true that what is settled by custom, though...are like strangers, more admired and less favoured." It is into prose something like this that S. Teresa's Spanish would naturally run. But this style of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - Liczba stron: 266
...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;8 and those things which have long gone together are, as it were, confederate within 1 Sui amantes,... | |
 | Bertha Meriton Gardiner - 1874 - Liczba stron: 404
...laid to heart the weighty sentences of the great philosopher of their youth. "It is true," says Bacon, "that what is settled by custom, though it be not...at least, it is fit ; and those things which have ' gone long together are, as it were, confederate within themselves, whereas new things piece not so... | |
 | 1874 - Liczba stron: 834
...the words of Bacon true that ' 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 . ' It is impossible to ponder on the social as apart from the military side of the important changes... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 462
...old ways, even though they be of the roughest and most intricate. To use the words of a great jndge, "what is settled by custom, though it be not good,...have long gone together are, as it were, confederate among themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well." That the English Bar, powerful in its centralization,... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 632
...beneficial. To use the language of one who was, in years gone by, a distinguished Bencher of Gray's Inn, ' What is settled by custom, though it be not good,...have long gone together are, as it were, confederate among themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well.' The notion that Lord Selborne and Lord Hatherley... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 630
...language of one who was, in years gone by, a distinguished Bencher of Gray's Inn, ' What is settled bv custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is...have long gone together are, as it were, confederate among themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well.' The notion that Lord Selborne and Lord Hatherley... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 630
...language of one who was, in years gone by, a distinguished Bencher of Gray's Inn, • What is settled bv custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit, and those thing's which have long gone together are, as it were, confederate among themselves ; whereas new things... | |
 | 1876 - Liczba stron: 860
...worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the * Lect. XXX. better, what shall be the end ? It is true that what is settled by custom, though...besides, they are like strangers, more admired and less favored. All this is true, if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - Liczba stron: 300
...to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end ? 15 It is true that what is settled by custom, though...have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate with themselves ; whereas new things piece not so well ; but, though they help by their utility, yet... | |
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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... 
