 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1066 lapas
...the most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1076 lapas
...the most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. point and penetration in their judgment, that they...Demosthenes compareth the people of Athens to coun Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | William Smyth - 1855 - 590 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 - 1856 - 406 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | 1857 - 632 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." Archbishop Whately has accounted, with great perspicacity, for the unfavourableness of Aristotle's... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 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...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 lapas
...well knew must be carried on another way."| It is the fault Bacon attributes to men of age, that they object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...and seldom drive business home to the full period. § Such fault was perhaps the failing of Nicias. He was timid and vacillating : Deficiunt aniniique... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 812 lapas
...translation. acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse1, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon 2, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.... | |
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. 
