 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...feldom drive Bufinefs home to the full Period ; but content themfelves with a Mediocrity of Succefs. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; for that will be good for the Prefent, becaufe the Virtues of either Age may corredt the defeats of both : and good for Succeffion,... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1066 pages
...most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but... | |
 | John Lindley - Botany - 1853 - 1076 pages
...most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive t Juventam plenam furorum nonnunquam ct cnminum habuifr. Spartian. vit. Sev. business home to the full... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1855 - 590 pages
...object too much ; they consult too long ; they adventure too little : they repent too soon ; and they, seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success." In these last words the great philosopher did not, perhaps, mean to compliment the old, but in these... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." Archbishop Whately has accounted, with great perspicacity, for the unfavourableness of Aristotle's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 pages
...must be carried on another way."| It is the fault Bacon attributes to men of age, that they object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...and seldom drive business home to the full period. § Such fault was perhaps the failing of Nicias. He was timid and vacillating : Deficiunt aniniique... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...feldom drive Bufinefs home to the full Period ; but content themfelves with a Mediocrity of Succefs. Certainly it is good to compound Employments of both ; for that will be good for the Prv?/£»?,becaufe the Virtues of either 2 Gafton de Foix was nephew to Louis XII. ; he commanded the... | |
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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. 
