 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 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... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1884 - 950 lapas
...innovation, s 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 little, repent too soon, and seldom drive justness home.' Even moderation itself may sometimes be folly or cowardice. On the Exclusion-bill being... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 lapas
...career, he was killed at the battle of Ravenna, in 1512. 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; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
 | 1918 - 806 lapas
...putting his words into the mouth of some illiterate person. CONCERNING MEN OF AGE. BACON has said, " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little .... content themselves with a mediocrity of success." Has it ever occurred to the governors of our... | |
 | 1909 - 378 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. 1 Deceiveth. • Are reckless in innovating. • Badly trained. • Completion. Certainly it is good... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 lapas
...which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, . . . content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Georges Minois - 1989 - 376 lapas
...amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner . . . Men of age object too much, consult too soon and seldom drive business home to the full...period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.44 Around the year 1525 Donato Giannotti, another Florentine, was attacking the old men in... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 lapas
...tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Many a man that can't direct you to a corner... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 lapas
...have chanced upon; care not to" (ie, how they) "innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compel employments of both, . . . because the virtues of either may correct... | |
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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. 
