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. The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 474by Francis Bacon - 1858Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 414 pages
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| William Smyth - 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 - 1856 - 406 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, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success....while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for extern2 accidents, because authority followeth old men, and favour and popularity youth ; but, for... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1860 - 680 pages
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| 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,... | |
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