 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 lapas
...will not acknowledge or retract them, like 18. 4 c 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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly 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 - 1825 - 538 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly 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 - 1825 - 524 lapas
...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly 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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 lapas
...thy graces Hume both in word and deed. Id. Tempest. Men of age object too much, adventure too little, and seldom drive business home to the full period...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Bacon. Let the exportation of home commodities be more in value than the importation of foreign. Id.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 lapas
...should be dra\rn unto it only for a time, and afterwards return to a mediocrity ? Hooker. Men of age seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of .success. Bacon. ТЬсте appeared a sudden and marvellous conversion in the duke's case, from the most exalted... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 lapas
...grace* Home both in word and deed. /if. Temptxt, Men of age object too much, adventure too little, and seldom drive business home to the full period; but content themselves with a mediocrity of succew. jfasm Let the exportation of home commodities be more in value than the importation of foreign.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 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... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1834 - 290 lapas
...innovation, is 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...repent too soon, and " seldom drive business home." Even moderation itself may sometimes be folly or cowardice. On the Exclusion-bill being opposed in... | |
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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. 
