 | Caleb Bingham - 1820 - 226 Seiten
...or ill fortune, will never be at rest. 30. To set about acquiring the habit of meditation and study late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs. In general, the foundation of a happy old age must be laid in youth ; and... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1825 - 234 Seiten
...good or ill fortune will never beat rest. 30. To set about acquiring the habit of meditation and study late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs. In general, the foundation of a happy old age must be laid in youth; and... | |
 | Henry Duhring - 1843 - 162 Seiten
...pleasures of life till we are nearly incapable of enjoying them, or to set about acquiring new habits late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when our limbs have already become stiffened by age or disease. The foundation of a happy old age must then... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.), Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1870 - 318 Seiten
...search after real knowledge. To set about acquiring the habits of meditation and study late in life ii is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs. In general, the foundations of a happy old age must be laid in youth ; and... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 Seiten
...fashionable Greek learning. True as it may be, that to set about acquiring the habits of meditation and study late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs ; he who makes these comparisons, Lord Bolingbroke to wit, was ready enough... | |
 | 1841 - 404 Seiten
...than we are now to judge for ourselves * * * To set about acquiring the habits of meditation and study late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs. In general, the foundations of an happy old age, must be laid in youth ;... | |
 | 1784 - 814 Seiten
...be continued.') Notrt by 'various Authors, TO Pet about acquiring the habit of raeditation and Itudy late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with...we have loft the ufe of our legs. In general, the foundations of an happy old age muft be laid in youth > and, in particular, he who has not cultivated... | |
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To fet about acquiring the habits of meditation and fludy late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a grey beard, and learning to walk when we have loft the ufe of our legs. In general, the foundations of an happy old age muft be laid in youth... 
