 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...CONVERSATION, AND WRITING. — 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 much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — Lord Bacon. READING FOR THE FAMILY. — Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table,... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 Seiten
...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 need...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 - 716 Seiten
...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...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 - 138 Seiten
...;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 - 310 Seiten
...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 ueed have much cunning, to seem to know that lie doth not. 267. THE SECOND MODERN PERIOD, extending... | |
 | 1853 - 748 Seiten
...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 - 414 Seiten
...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 - 894 Seiten
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. bject remaineth, it is with a communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no slond or impediment... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 Seiten
...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 - 396 Seiten
...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...mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought... | |
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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,... 
