Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1997
AUTHOR:
Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
QUOTATION:
Ask counsel of both times—of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
ATTRIBUTION:
FRANCIS BACON, “Of Great Place,” The Essays, or Counsels Civil & Moral of Francis Bacon, p. 48 (1905). Based on the 1625 edition but with modernized spelling.
