 | 1911 - 994 str.
...on the part of the teachers in the profession is an excellent quality and makes for great good. "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside," is a good motto for the teachers of the youth of the land. Did the college teachers accept... | |
 | John Pincher Faunthorpe - 1879 - 380 str.
...be to avoid extremes, and take heed to the injunction conveyed in the following couplet : — " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." Dress must be suitable to occupation and also to station in life. It is quite possible,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1879 - 394 str.
...conquered.—Webster. 13. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old; Jfe not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.—Pope. II. VERBALS. I. The Infinitive. 184. The infinitive may be used as— I. A noun.... | |
 | 1912 - 582 str.
...believe the advice we used to have given us in the old poetic couplet still stands good in this case: "Be not the first by whom the new is tried. Nor yet the last to cast the old aside." Before you take up and sound the praise of something new and startling, be sure... | |
 | 1898 - 558 str.
...be compared with the older. The progressive practitioner of the day usually has for his motto, "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last the old to lay aside," and, acting upon this guiding principle, he is always ready to accept the new... | |
 | 1881 - 692 str.
...the vast middle class whose maxim in effect seems to be expressed by the poet's familiar lines : " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." In medicine it is through the careful plodding examination of this middle class that accumulated clinical... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 str.
...length of breeches, and the gathers, Port-canons, periwigs, and feathers. Bailer, Hud. in. 923. Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Pope, EC 335. Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to... | |
 | 1921 - 838 str.
...but Fords where I came from. — THOMAS P. HASLAM, University of Nebraska, '24. Pope's Prescience "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside." — Pope, speaking of BVD's and "heavies." — ROBERT D. SHEA, Notre Dame, Ind., '22. The... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1882 - 1146 str.
...the innovation, and decline the questionable honour of being the first to advertise a novelty. " Be not the first by whom the new is tried. Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." CHAPTER LXVII. MANNERS IN THE STREET AND PUBLIC PLACES. Deportment and manner in walking... | |
 | American Dental Association - 1883 - 488 str.
...PAPER BY JA KOBINSON, OF THE SECTION. T HAVE chosen as a motto for this paper the words of Pope : " Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." In a -profession scarcely twenty-five years old in national existence, and one that has been formed among... | |
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Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 
