 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...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 - 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 - 1843 - 620 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
 | George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
 | 96 pages
...Citizen office. THE COBS LAWS. — Sir Robert Peel is one of those men described by Bacon, who "object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home.'' He will not drive this business home, or he will do it when the season or the advantages are lost The... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age ohject too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive husiness "lume to the full period, hut content themselves with a medit'irity of success. Certainly... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...and seldom drive business home to the full period, hot content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...of both ; and good for succession, that young men mny be learners, while men in age arp actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men ofjige object J ago may correct the defects of both ; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while... | |
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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. 
