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...feldom drive Bufinefs home to the full Period ; but content themfelves with a Mediocrity of Succefs. Certainly, it is good to compound Employments of both ; for that will be good for the Prefent, becaufe the Virtues of either Age may corredt the defeats of both : and good for Succeffion,...

...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,...adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive t Juventam plenam furorum nonnunquam ct cnminum habuifr. Spartian. vit. Sev. business home to the full...

...the most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but...

...the most capable of those whom he knew belonged to the class of men described by Lord Bacon, who " object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...repent too soon, and seldom drive business home," that he undertook a task for which no man's abilities are in reality high enough. He could not but...

...object too much ; they consult too long ; they adventure too little : they repent too soon ; and they, seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success." In these last words the great philosopher did not, perhaps, mean to compliment the old, but in these...

...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,...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments...

...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,...content themselves with a mediocrity of success." Archbishop Whately has accounted, with great perspicacity, for the unfavourableness of Aristotle's...

...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,...too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period,1 but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. Certainly it is good to compound employments...

...well knew must be carried on another way."| It is the fault Bacon attributes to men of age, that they object too much, consult too long, adventure too little,...and seldom drive business home to the full period. § Such fault was perhaps the failing of Nicias. He was timid and vacillating : Deficiunt aniniique...