| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...horse, * He passed his youth not merely in enors but in madnesses. that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of Age objtct too much, consult too long, adventure too* little,...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it Is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| 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) - English literature - 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both; for that will be good for the present, because... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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, adventure...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, becanse... | |
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