 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both;3 and good for succession, that young men may be learners...while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern2 accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth; but, for the... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...II. Line 480 Men of age object too much, consult too Ions', adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. i. BACON — Essay XLII. Of Youth andAge. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime, j. BEATTIE—... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Line 486 Men of age object too much, consult too ling, adventure too little, repent too soon, anil seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. i. " BACON— Essay XLII. Of Youth and Aye. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. j. ВЕАТПЕ—... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves witli a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound...while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth: but for the... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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,...compound employments of both ; for that will be good isx the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both ; and good for succession,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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 externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth. But, for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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 externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth ; but, for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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 externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth ; but, for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 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 externe accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favor and popularity youth; but, for the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 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...are actors; and, lastly, good for extern' accidents, became authority folio weth old men, and favour and popularity youth; but, for the moral part, perhaps,... | |
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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. 
