 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...or retract them, like a restive horse, * He passed his youth not merely in enors but in madnesses. that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object...little ; repent too soon, and seldom drive business to its full period, but content themselves with mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to unite... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...extreme remedies at first, and that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, and repent too soon.' Neither have we, in the course of the observations we have made on the size and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 pages
...extreme remedies at first, and that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, and repent too soon.' Neither have we, in the course of the observations we have made on the size and... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 pages
...on Youth and Age, what can be truer, what can be more novel or more eloquent, than this sentence ? " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." What he says of Beauty is less considerate. BARROW. I do not wonder at it: Beauty is not stript in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...thy graces Hume both in word and deed. Id. Tempest. Men of age object too much, adventure too little, and seldom drive business home to the full period...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Bacon. Let the exportation of home commodities be more in value than the importation of foreign. Id.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...grace* Home both in word and deed. /if. Temptxt, Men of age object too much, adventure too little, and seldom drive business home to the full period; but content themselves with a mediocrity of succew. jfasm Let the exportation of home commodities be more in value than the importation of foreign.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...should be dra\rn unto it only for a time, and afterwards return to a mediocrity ? Hooker. Men of age seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of .success. Bacon. ТЬсте appeared a sudden and marvellous conversion in the duke's case, from the most exalted... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1834 - 290 pages
...innovation, is at once a great and a common evil. There is much truth in Bacon's complaint? " That some men object too much, consult " too long, adventure too...repent too soon, and " seldom drive business home." Even moderation itself may sometimes be folly or cowardice. On the Exclusion-bill being opposed in... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...at first ; and that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age...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... | |
 | George Ramsay - 1843 - 620 pages
...at first, and that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 10 The correctness of this description few, I suppose, will deny. Now, most of these distinguishing... | |
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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. 
