 Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or long experience made some change in it ; And taught him, that those things he thought he knew He did not know, and what he held as best, In practice he threw by.  The Comedies of Terence - Page 272by Terence - 1810 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jeremy Taylor - Sermons, English - 1816 - 536 pages
...discourses of men ; we first learn the principles of reason, which * Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...did not know ; and what he held as best, In practice hb threw by. COI.MAN. Serm. XI. THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT. '205 breaks obscurely through a cloud, and... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Sermons, English - 1816 - 526 pages
...discourses of men ; we first learn the principles of reason, which * Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...It ; And taught him, that those things he thought be knew, He did not know ; and what he held as best, Tn practice he threw by. Q<H.MAN. breaks obscurely... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1822 - 514 pages
...our hutneur to the time. (JEzetntf.) ACT V. SCENE I. DEMEA alone. NITER did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...thing That happens to myself. For that hard life Which I have ever led, my race near run, Now in the last stage, I renounce : and why > But that by dear experience... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 562 pages
...knows not How to rule children. yours, The Same at given by Demen. NEVEH did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...thing That happens to myself. For that hard life Which I have ever led, my race near run, Now in the last stage, I renounce: and why? But that by dear experience... | |
 | William Peter - English poetry - 1847 - 568 pages
...knows not How to rule children. yours, The Same at given by Demea. NEVKB did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...he held as best, In practice he threw by. The very thin? That happens to myself. For that hard life Which I have ever led, my race near run, Now in the... | |
 | William Peter - 1856 - 590 pages
...How to rule children. 41Û LUCRETIUS. The Same at given by Demea. NEVIH did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...it; And taught him, that those things he thought he He did not know, and what he held as best, In practice he threw by. The very thins; That happens to... | |
 | Craufurd Tait Ramage - 1864 - 594 pages
...Et quss tibi putaris prima, in experiundo repudies. Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wiae a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or long experience...and what he held as best, In practice he threw by. GENTLENESS. Adelph. v. 4. 7. Re ipsa reperi, Facilitate nihil esse homini melius neque dementia. But... | |
 | Terence, Henry Thomas Riley - The comedies of Terence - 1872 - 626 pages
...our humor to the time. (Exeunt. ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. DEMEA alone. Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...thing That happens to myself. For that hard life Which I have ever led, my race near run, Now in the Inst stage, I renounce : and why ? But that by dear experience... | |
 | Terence, Henry Thomas Riley - 1887 - 638 pages
...our humor to the time. (Exeunt. ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. DEMEA alone. Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...best, In practice he threw by. The very thing That happeus to myself. For that hard life Which I have ever led, my race near run, Now in the last stage,... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Latin language - 1889 - 520 pages
...as seems to show the following soliloquy, opening the fifth act : Never did man lay down so fair a plan, So wise a rule of life, but fortune, age, Or...and what he held as best, In practice he threw by. ... Striving to make a fortune for my sons, 1 have worn out my prime of life and health : And now,... | |
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