| Richard Sharp - 1834 - 290 lapas
...innovation, is at once a great and a common evil. There is much truth in Bacon's complaint? " That some men object too much, consult " too long, adventure too...repent too soon, and " seldom drive business home." Even moderation itself may sometimes be folly or cowardice. On the Exclusion-bill being opposed in... | |
| Time - 1835 - 274 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly, it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present ; because... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. VAIN GLORY. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Vain Glory.) It was prettily devised of ./Esop, the fly sat upon... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 lapas
...that will not neither stop nor turn. Men of i Ho spent his youth not merely in errors but in madness. age object too much, consult too long, adventure too...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| William Smyth - 1840 - 446 lapas
...object too much; they consult too long; they adventure too little; they repent too soon ; and they seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success." In these last words the great philosopher did not, perhaps, mean to compliment the old, but in these... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - 590 lapas
[ Atvainojiet, šīs lappuses saturs ir ierobežots. ] | |
| George Ramsay - 1843 - 620 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
| George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
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