 | Helvétius - 1759 - 372 pages
...ignorant himfelf of the motives of his generous action, how can the public be acquainted with them ? Thus it is only from the actions of men, that the public can judge of their probity. A man, for inftance, has twenty degrees of paffion for virtue ; but he has thirty degrees of love for a woman... | |
 | 1764 - 404 pages
...ftate becomes infenfibly more and more precarious, and it is chance, which either delays or haftens the fall of it. It is only from the actions of men,...probity. A man, that is young in years, may be old in hour% if he has loft no time. To lee a father treating his fon like an elder brother ; and to fee fons... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...is better to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. o» jpoutt anQ A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeueth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so... | |
 | Granville Penn - 1812 - 332 pages
...few, will both quicken the affections of the heart, and excite the sensibility of the conscience. , " A man that is young in years, may be " old in hours," says Lord Bacon, " if be " have lost no time." Although the space of time over which youth can exercise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...better to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...it is better to mitigate Usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. lloutt) anfc A. MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally Youth is like the first cogitations, not so... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...it is better to mitigate Usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. goutft an& A. MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally Youth is like the first cogitations, not so... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. XLII. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A MAN that is young in years, may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. XLIII. OF YOUTH AND AGE. • ' . > A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not... | |
 | John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...interesting portion of human life with Lord Bacon's celebrated comparison between Youth and Age: — " A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so... | |
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention... 
