 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - 1872 - 906 str.
...justify their purchase by many who adopt the advice (in matters of business generally safe) — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." In comparing the horse pitchforks with the machine elevators we may note it... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1844 - 352 str.
...conversation therefore be natural, and as to the fashion of your dress take the good old rule— ' Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.' In short be Sam Slick." " Don't be afeerd, Minister," said Mr. Slick, " I have... | |
 | Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1845 - 342 str.
...conversation therefore be natural, and as to the fashion of your dress take the good old rule— ' Be not the first by •whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. In short be Sam Slick." " Don't be afeerd, Minister," said Mr. Slick, " I have... | |
 | 1845
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 | 1847 - 540 str.
...Admires the jay the insect's varying wings ? Or, hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? POPE. 14. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting,... | |
 | 1847 - 526 str.
...Admires the jay the insect's varying wings ? Or, hears the hawk when Philomela sings ? POPE. 14. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. POPE. 15. And even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting,... | |
 | 1850 - 310 str.
...miseries of young women, and half their ill tempers, might be avoided by habits of domestic activity. BE not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. — Pope. THE MOTHER'S ASSISTANT. APRIL, 1850. [No. 4. Written for the Mother's... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 str.
...good one : " In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old ; Be not the first by whom the new is tried, , Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." RULE IV. — When the usage is divided as to any words and phrases, and when... | |
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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
