 | 1857 - 632 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." Archbishop Whately has accounted, with great perspicacity, for the unfavourableness of Aristotle's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...good to compound imploiments of both : for that will bee good for the present ; because the vertues of either age may correct the defects of both : and good for succession, that young men may bee learners, while men in age are Actors : and lastly, in respect of externe accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...good to compound imploiments of both : for that will bee good for the present ; because the vertues of either age may correct the defects of both : and good for succession, that young men may bee learners, while men in age are Actors : and lastly, in respect of externe accidents, because authority... | |
 | Nahum Gale - 1860 - 160 pages
...observed, that " 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." But it was not so with Dr. Tyler ; in his last years his energy of action was unabated, and was exemplified... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adveuture too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full 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 - Biography - 1863 - 580 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.' Archbishop Whately has accounted, with great perspicacity, for the unfavourableness of Aristotle's... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...Weakness of Old 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. Essay on Youth and Agt. — \MV.\i BACON. AGE. Youthfulness in Though gray our heads, our thoughts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...these words ? Correct : What word would be more appropriate, and why? for succession: for the future. it is good to compound employments of both : for that...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 - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound...while men in age are actors ; . and, lastly, good for extern2 accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but, for... | |
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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. 
