| Edward Michael Whitty - 1857 - 448 páginas
...showman. " He has peculiar views about the Gipsy tribes. Does he not walk like a panther ? He says that youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret ; but he has a tremendous taste for life — just as he admits that Port is made in Goswell-street,... | |
| Edward Michael Whitty - 1857 - 644 páginas
...showman. " He has peculiar views about the Gipsy tribes. Does he not walk like a panther ? He says that youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret ; but he has a tremendous taste for life — just as he admits that Port is made in Goswell-street,... | |
| George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1879 - 642 páginas
...distinguished townsman, Joseph PSDcoast, five men of whom any profession in any country might justly be proud. It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood...regret. If this be true I have not realized it in mj own person ; nor need it be true of any one who U true to himself. Struggles of some kind or aiiotbe... | |
| 1870 - 532 páginas
...distinguished townsman, Joseph Pancoast, five men of whom any profession in any country might justly be proud. It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret. If this be tru*, I have not realized it in my own person ; nor need it be true of any one who is true to himself.... | |
| 1879 - 58 páginas
...in any country might justly be proud. "It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood astruggle, and old age a regret. If this be true, I have not...of every man who is not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. I certainly had mine, but they were the struggles of early life, and I thank God for them,... | |
| 1879 - 946 páginas
...townsman, Joseph Fancoast, — five men of whom any profession in any country might justly be proud. It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood...who is true to himself. Struggles of some kind or another are almost the inevitable lot of every man who is not bom with a silver spoon in his mouth.... | |
| 1885 - 1234 páginas
...personalty to the amount of 90,000f. One who knew Mr. Walter has remarked that Lord Beaconsfield's saying, ' Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret,' had no application to Mr. Walter ; but that ' his youth was an exciting struggle, his manhood a period... | |
| 1894 - 436 páginas
...pleasant, but remember that out of their pleasant vices boys and men make whips to scourge themselves. It has been said that ' Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.' But the fewer the blunders of youth, the fewer the regrets of old age. The man,... | |
| Furneaux Jordan - 1896 - 164 páginas
...appreciator puts it in the future. It is in both a creation of the brain. An acute observer of life has said that youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, and old age a regret. The remark is especially true of the slowly maturing, impassioned, and contemplative individual: his... | |
| Theodore Tilton - 1897 - 884 páginas
...not rhetoric but judgement. The great bard judged too wisely of life to say with Lord Beaconsfield. 'Youth is a blunder, Manhood a struggle, and Old Age a regret.' This is exactly what Shakespeare — throughout his whole description of Man's Seven Ages — has forborne... | |
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