 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,...  The Harvard Classics - Seite 1251909Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1825 - 372 Seiten
...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, to seem to have that which he hath not." Bar-on. which a penitent makes of his sins to God : in a more restricted... | |
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 Seiten
...therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Beam. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in the twentieth, make it manifest.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 Seiten
...therefore, if a man write little, he. had need have a great memory ; if he cpnfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to arem to know that he doth not. Bacon. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in... | |
 | 1832 - 670 Seiten
...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...Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 Seiten
...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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. LORD BACON. LESSON LXVIII. Speech of Logan. 1. In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery and murder... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 Seiten
...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...grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may i>« wrought out by fit... | |
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