 | Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 էջ
...drive Bufinefs home to the full Period, but content themfelves with a Mediocrity of Succefs. Therefore it is good to compound 'Employments of both ; for that will be good for the Prr/f»f, becaufe the Vertues of either Age, may correct the Defefts of both; and good for Sncceffion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 էջ
...advantage of iur indolence. Ragen. A'iH'OR. n. ¡. \_actor, Lat.] i. He that acts or perform» any tiling. The virtues of either age may correct the defects of both : and good for succession, th.it young men may be learners, while men in aje are eclen. Bac-m. He who writes an Rncomium Ncronis,... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 էջ
...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 - 1812 - 348 էջ
...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...both; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 էջ
...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...both ; and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors ; and, lastly, good for external accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 էջ
...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...both, and good for succession, that Young Men may be learners, while men in Age are actors. And lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 էջ
...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,...both, and good for succession, that Young Men may be learners, while men in Age are actors. And lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 էջ
...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...both : and good for succession, that young men may be learners, while men in age are actors : and lastly, good for extern accidents, because authority... | |
 | 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 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1819 - 596 էջ
...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... | |
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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. 
