 | Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 lehte
...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,... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 lehte
...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 too much,...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 416 lehte
...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,...employments of both ; for that will be good for the present, becanse the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both ; and good for succession, that young... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 - 1829 - 810 lehte
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 lehte
...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.... | |
 | Richard Sharp - 1834 - 290 lehte
...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... | |
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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. 
