 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...  The Critical Essays of a Country Parson - Page 17by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd - 1865 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance. XLII.— OP YOUTH AND AGE. A MAN that is j'oung in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happenelh rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second:... | |
 | 1886 - 610 pages
...the most virtuous and perfect of girls without hope.' " — HAYWARD. 11. Translate into German — " 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,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - American literature - 1886 - 484 pages
...! to bloom and beard in vain, Sheafed round a sick-room's bed of pain, And garnered in the grave." "A man that is young in years may be old in hours," remarks Bacon, " if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely." Measured by such a standard,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...declaration than to suffer it to rage by connivance. i OF YOUTH AND AGE. 231 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 wise as the second.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...to mitigate usury by declaration, than to suffer it to rage by connivance.1 XLII. OF YODTH 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 wise as the second.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 534 pages
...may spread into generations, and not be ever pieced from without. — Essay XXXII. OF YOUTH AND AGE. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Generally youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second, for there is a youth in thought... | |
 | Character - 1903 - 172 pages
...My friend, you make very free with your days; pray, how many do you except to have ? — De Quincey. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. — Bacon. Look not mournfully into the Past ; it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present... | |
 | William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...motion of a bullet in the air, which fiieth so swift as it outruns the eye.—Essays. 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 wise as the second... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - California - 1903 - 320 pages
...formidable of my rivals, I may chance one time or other to give him such a snap as he won't like. BACON. 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;... | |
 | Abram N. Coleman - Maxims - 1903 - 310 pages
...ill-spoken by Methusaleh in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth year of his life. Abraham Cowley. 11. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has not lost time. Lord Bacon. of their fortune, and still fewer of their time. Lord Chesterfield.... | |
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