 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 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,...age may correct the defects of both ; and good for succession,2 that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for extern... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 460 pages
...home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good 10 to compound employments of both ; for that will be...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 - English essays - 1890 - 456 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,...with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good 10 to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 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 - 1891 - 466 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... | |
 | William John Deane - Bible - 1891 - 678 pages
...Bacon says, " 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 ; " and Madame de Stae'l says, " To resist with success the frigidity of old age, one must combine... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1892 - 402 pages
...full periooyuut content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to comi pound employments of both ; for that will be good for the...present, because the virtues of either age may correct u>- 1 ^e Defects °f both ; and good_f or succession, that young \ men may be learners, while men in... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - Calendars - 1893 - 294 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. BACON. January 8. The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence and the violent bear it away. MATTHEW xi.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...Madame Swetchine. 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. — Bacon. When men grow virtuous in their old age, (* nj ji m'jii j^rvw vircuuua lu men uiu u^v, AI*... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 500 pages
...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,' but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound...the present, because the virtues of either age may correc' the defects of both;8 and good for succession, that young men may be learners while men 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. 
