 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 str.
...wliicli 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,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the lull period,' but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compouud... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 str.
...seldome drive Businesse home to - the full Period ; But content themselves with a Mediocrity of Successe. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both...For that will be Good for the Present, because the Vertues of either Age, may correct the defects of both: And good for Succession, that Young Men may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 str.
...Obiect too much, Consult too long, Adventure too little, Repent too soone, and seldome drive Businesse home to the full Period ; But content themselves with a Mediocrity of Successe. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; For that will be Good for the Present,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 str.
...young men, and the way business is done is the way young men do business; for Lord Bacon says: "Old men object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and are content with a very moderate success;" and no man in these times will admit that this is the way... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 678 str.
...feldome driue Bufmefle home to the full Period ; But content themfelues with a Mediocrity of Succefle. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; For that will be Good12 for the Prefent, becaufe the Vertues of either Age, may correft the defects of both :13 And... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 str.
...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,...and seldom drive business home to the full period, 1 but content themselves with the mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 str.
...them, like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult top long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,' 9 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 str.
...errors) will not acknowledge or retract them ; like an unready horse that will neither stop nor turn. 35 Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of 40 both. For that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 str.
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 str.
...which they have chanced upon absurdly ; care not 3 to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniencies ; use extreme remedies at first ; and that, which doubleth...success. Certainly it is good to compound employments of both;9 for that will be good for the present, because the virtues of either age may correct the defects... | |
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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. 
