 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 lapas
...them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult top long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,' 9 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 lapas
...and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them. ATTERBURY. 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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.) - 1876 - 320 lapas
...errors) will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. 35 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 40 both. For that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 lapas
...On Youth and Age, what can be truer, what can be more novel or more eloquent, than this sentence ? " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." What he says Of Beauty is less considerate. Barrow. I do not wonder at it : Beauty is not stript in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 - 1879 - 356 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will not 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;9 for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 lapas
...errors) will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. 35 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 of4o both. For that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will not 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;9 for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 lapas
...and retain the good things of this life, when we have the least prospect of enjoying them. ATTERBURY. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will he good for the present, because... | |
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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. 
