 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pàgines
...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...if he confer little, he had need have a present wit -r and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAP.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pàgines
...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...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pàgines
...distilled waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abeunl studio, in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1825 - 372 pàgines
...royal authority upon him." " Reading makes a full man, conferenve a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little he had...read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to have that which he hath not." Bar-on. which a penitent makes of his sins to God : in a more restricted... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...confer little, haue a present wit, and if he read little, hee had need haue much cunning, to seeme to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, Poets witty, the Mathcmatiks subtill, natural philosophy deep, Morall graue, Logick and Rhetoricke, able to contendor... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pàgines
...confer little, haue a present wit, and if he read little, hee had need haue much cunning, to seeme to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, Poets witty, the Mathcmatiks subtill. natural philosophy deep, Morall graue, Logick and Rhetorickc, sl>!e to contend.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pàgines
...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. • BACON. CHAP. X. ON SATIRICAL- WIT. — TRUST me, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pàgines
...waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had...the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pàgines
...— Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. 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. — Lord Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pàgines
...— Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. 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. — Lord Baam. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
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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,... 
