 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - Liczba stron: 136
...man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, be had need have a great memory; if he confer little,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics suhtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave;... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - Liczba stron: 136
...distilled waters, flashy things : Reading maketh a fnll man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had...a present wit ; and if he read little he had need hare mnch cnnning, to meem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematies... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - Liczba stron: 716
...distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had...a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need hare much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. SIB WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - Liczba stron: 138
...;l;.sby things : Reading maketh a fnll roan ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; andi therefore, if a man write little, he had need have...present wit ; and if he read little he had need have mnch cnnning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty; the mathematies... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1853 - Liczba stron: 310
...distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and. therefore, if a man write little, he had...have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had ueed have much cunning, to seem to know that lie doth not. 267. THE SECOND MODERN PERIOD, extending... | |
 | 1853 - Liczba stron: 748
...Quotations wanted (Vol. vii., p. 40.). — Bacon, in his Essay " Of Studies," has this sentence : " And if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not." which is perhaps the reference Miss Edgeworth intended. "A world without a sun," is from Campbell's... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - Liczba stron: 414
...to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - Liczba stron: 894
...distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact the object remaineth, it is with a communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep ; moral,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - Liczba stron: 440
...maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a present wit; and if he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not BACON. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung,... | |
 | 1855 - Liczba stron: 396
...distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore, if a man write little, he had...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave,... | |
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... 
