 A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention...  The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 17by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...herbs or weeds : therefore, let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A MAN that is young, in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. XLII. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...mitigate usury by declaration, than to sufler it to rage by connivance. XLII.— OF YOUTH AND AGE. A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeueth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 pages
...thee. The circumstances of this case is different. Well for us if some such other men should rise ! A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have GENERAL RULE OF SYNTAX. In the formation of sentences, the consistency and adaptation of all the words... | |
 | Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1845 - 144 pages
...mentioned, methinks it is not only dubious, but capable of large error. The wise Lord Bacon hath said that " a man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but," he addeth,—alack that the world should have profited so little by his wisdom !— " that happeneth... | |
 | Francesco Guicciardini - 1845 - 214 pages
...makes Time longer. CHE '1 perder tempo a chi pi1i sa piii spiace. Del Purgatorio, canto iii. line 78. A MAN that is Young in Years, may be Old in Hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Essays, xlii. Of Youth and Age. Dante. 138 HOU, who dost follow a Court... | |
 | Francesco Guicciardini - 1845 - 216 pages
...makes Time longer. CHE '1 perder tempo a chi piii sa piii spiace. Del Purgatorio, canto iii. line 78. A MAN that is Young in Years, may be Old in Hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Essays, xlii. Of Youth and Age. Dante. 138 HOU, who dost follow a Court... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...Hours is a noun, being the name of a division of time. If is a conjunction, connecting the clause, " A man that is young in years may be old in hours," to the following clause, " he has lost no time." As if in such cases points out the condition on which... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...mentioned, methinks it is not only dubious, but capable of large error. The wise Lord Bacon hath said that " a man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but," he addeth, — alack that the world should have profited so little by his wisdom ! — "that... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...Essay, " Of Youth and Age," which is one of those published in 1612, must be given nearly in full : — A man that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time, but that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second... | |
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