| Edward Michael Whitty - English fiction - 1857 - 644 pages
...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 - English fiction - 1857 - 448 pages
...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,... | |
| 1870 - 532 pages
...Draper, of New York ; Benjamin Silliman, of New Haven, and our distinguished townsman, Joseph Pancoast, five men of whom any profession in any country might...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.... | |
| Medicine - 1879 - 946 pages
...of New York, Benjamin Silliman, of New Haven, and our distinguished townsman, Joseph Fancoast, — five men of whom any profession in any country might...regret. If this be true I have not realized it in my own person; nor need it be true of any one who is true to himself. Struggles of some kind or another... | |
| 1879 - 58 pages
...Parker, Austin Flint, John W. Draper, Benjamin Silliman, and our distinguished townsman, Joseph Pancoast, five men of whom any profession in any country might..."It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood astruggle, and old age a regret. If this be true, I have not realized it in my own person ; nor need... | |
| Leartus Connor, Henry Alexander Cleland - Medicine - 1880 - 588 pages
...pages. The following so aptly unfolds the secrets of this successful career that we quote it entire: " It has been said that youth is a blunder, manhood...regret. If this be true, I have not realized it in my own person, nor need it be true of any one who is true to himself. Struggles of some kind or other... | |
| Nineteenth century - 1885 - 1234 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Character - 1896 - 164 pages
...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 - Ballads - 1897 - 884 pages
...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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