 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse0, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much,...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... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - 678 pages
...its defects, not only in bodily frailty, but in a certain mental stiffening. Thus Lord Bacon says, " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...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 - 1892 - 402 pages
...which doubleth all errors, wilj, pot acknowledge or retract them ; like an unreaaynorse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent.top soon, and seldom drive business home to the full periodvuut cbnten business home to the... | |
 | Emma Forbes Cary - 1893 - 294 pages
...that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much,...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 - 1894 - 604 pages
...vibrations.— Longfellow. Years do not make sages ; they only make old men. — Madame Swetchine. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...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*... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 600 pages
...feldome driue Bufmeffe home to the full Period ; But content themfelues with a Mediocrity of Succeffe. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; For that will be Good12 for the Prefent, becaufe the Vertues of either Age, may correct, the defects of both :1S And... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath ? Yes; but not this alone. p. MATTHEW ARNOLD — Growing Old. g. BACON— Essay XLII. Of YouthandAge. Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1900 - 508 pages
...taken seven pages to express, or rather to obscure, the ideas in these three lines from Bacon : — " Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." 1 His work abounds in illustrations, analogies, and striking imagery ; but, unlike the great Elizabethan... | |
 | 1900 - 492 pages
...which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them : like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, ad1 " Hii youth was full of errors, yea, of evil passions." — Spartim, " Vit Ser." venture too little,... | |
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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. 
