 | 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 - 164 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 - 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... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 lapas
...forbids the pleasures of youth on pain of death. Maxims, cccxx. — ROCHEFOUCAULT. AGE. Weakness of Old Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Essay on Youth and Agt. — \MV.\i BACON. AGE. Youthfulness in Though gray our heads, our thoughts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 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,3 and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor [8] turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...drive business home to the full period, but content [9] themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly [7.] Manage : management. ' The manage of my... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 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...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the lull period,' but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compouud... | |
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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. 
