 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 318 страница
...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 too little,...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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 страница
...rather be said, When he sits in place both; for that will be good for the present, he is another man. because the virtues of either age may correct the defects of both: and good for succession, 45 that young men may be learners, while men xiii. OF TOUTH *"> AGE in age are actors: and, lastly,... | |
 | 1909 - 378 страница
...acknowledge or retract them; like an unready* horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. 1 Deceiveth. • Are reckless in innovating. • Badly trained. • Completion. Certainly it is good... | |
 | Michael Nerlich - 1987 - 282 страница
...inconveniences. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, . . . content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly...employments of both, for that will be good for the present.55 Thirty-nine years after Bacon's Essays, the treatise by Thomas Mun, England's Treasure by... | |
 | Georges Minois - 1989 - 376 страница
...amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner . . . Men of age object too much, consult too soon and seldom drive business home to the full...period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.44 Around the year 1525 Donato Giannotti, another Florentine, was attacking the old men in... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 страница
...care not to" (ie, how they) "innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences. . . . Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compel employments of both, . . . because the virtues of either may correct the defects of both." He... | |
 | Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 страница
...acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. FRANCIS BACON, "Of Youth and Age," essay 42, The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. Basil Montagu, vol. 1,... | |
 | David Gutmann - 1994 - 340 страница
...acknowledge or retract them; Like an unready Horse, that will neither Stop, nor Turn. Men of Age, Object too much, Consult too long, Adventure too little,...But content themselves with a Mediocrity of Success. — SIR FRANCIS BACON, 1561-1626 J. sychological changes, potentially developmental in nature, come... | |
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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. 
