 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...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.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...this sentence ? " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...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 (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...while men in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but for... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...while men in age are actors : and lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth. But, for... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...errors but in madness. age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth : but, forthe... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...stop nor turn. 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. VAIN GLORY. (Lord Bacon's Essays. Vain Glory.) It was prettily devised of ./Esop, the fly sat upon... | |
 | William Smyth - France - 1840 - 446 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... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 620 pages
...stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
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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. 
