 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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...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... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paull - 1858 - 332 lapas
...stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...and seldom drive business home to the full period. BACOK. "I AM glad to find you alone," said Leonard, as he entered his aunt's room on the following... | |
 | Margaret Agnes Paul - 1858 - 338 lapas
...stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...and seldom drive business home to the full period. BACON. ' T AM glad to find you alone,' said Leonard, as J- he entered his aunt's room on the following... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 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.... | |
 | Nahum Gale - 1860 - 160 lapas
...not allow obstacles to array themselves in a phalanx to oppose success. Bacon has observed, that " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." But it was not so with Dr. Tyler ; in his last years his energy of action was unabated, and was exemplified... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 680 lapas
[ Atvainojiet, šīs lappuses saturs ir ierobežots. ] | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse,2 that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon,8 and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 lapas
...unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adveuture too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business...period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of succos. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present,... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1863 - 280 lapas
...resolve upon at all." Bacon has well described this irresolution in his complaint, " that some men object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home." The strongest incentive to decision is self-dependence, Mr. Sharp writes to a young friend at college... | |
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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. 
