 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...more than they can hold, stir more than they can quiet, fly to the end without considera- • tion of the means and degrees, pursue some few principles which they have discovered by chance absurdly, fear not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences, use extreme... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...01= sooner. Young Men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration...horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of Age objtct too much, consult too long, adventure too* little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business... | |
 | 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
...indisputable. ' Young men,' says Lord Bacon, ' care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniencies, use 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... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...indisputable. ' Young men,' says Lord Bacon, ' care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniencies, use 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... | |
 | John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like 18. 4 c an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of Age object too much, consult too... | |
 | William Milne - 1824 - 250 pages
...pardon without price, but can give no indulgences. YOUTH AND AGE, embrace more than they cin hold ; stir more than they can quiet, fly to the end without consideration...pursue some few principles which they have chanced on absurdly, care not to innovate; which draws upon them unknown inconveniences, use extreme remedies... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
....or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can qoiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means...errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - Young men - 1836 - 200 pages
...said Lord Bacon, " in the conduct and management of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees; and pursue some few principles which they have merely chanced upon." Now, whence do these errors proceed?... | |
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold ; stir more than they can quiet ; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly... 
