 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
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 Seiten
...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 make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 Seiten
...therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need studia in mores." Nay, there is no slond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies;... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 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...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. As a theologian, Bacon possessed an intimate acquaintance with the Bible, and was a believer in the... | |
 | 1855 - 396 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...deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 Seiten
...therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if lie 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 ; " 2 nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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. TIIE END OF KNOWLEDGE. Tt is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | 1856 - 374 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. — Lard Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 188 Seiten
...therefore, a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he converse little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that which he doth not. — LORD BACON, slightly altered. * HINT TO THE TEACHER. — After the pupil has... | |
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