| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pągines
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 hare much cunning,... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pągines
...others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...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... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 pągines
...distilled hooks are. like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and. therefore,...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 ueed have much cunning,... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pągines
...others. — Colton. READING, CONVERSATION, AND WRITING. — Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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,... | |
| Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 pągines
...dislilled hooks are, like common distilled waters, flashy things : Reading maketh a fnll man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 hare mnch cnnning,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pągines
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Beading maketh a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...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... | |
| Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 138 pągines
...;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 a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had need have mnch cnnning,... | |
| Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 pągines
...distilled hooks are, like common 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, be had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pągines
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a he spirit, and is forcible while the object remaineth,...with a communication of the breath or vapour of the o confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pągines
...distilled books are like common 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 need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not... | |
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