 | 1855 - 602 Seiten
...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,...wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much canning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty ; the mathematics,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 Seiten
...common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing h when wo wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift...[Expulsion from Paradise.'] [From the same.] He en hod need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 Seiten
...some few to 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,...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... | |
 | 1872 - 858 Seiten
...Christian teachers. And I may fitly preface my remarks with a sentence from Lord Bacon's Essays : — " Histories make men •wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." I should prefer saying of logic that, when intelligently studied, it makes men able to diminish the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 Seiten
...chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Arid, 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 Seiten
...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,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 4 Advantage of having the Counsel of a Friend. There is as much difference between the counsel that... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 Seiten
...other occasions. ENGAGE IN STUDIES OPPOSITE TO THE FAVORITE PURSUIT. Histories make men wise : poetry, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy,...rhetoric, able to contend. " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies. Like as diseases... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 Seiten
...some few to 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,...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 Seiten
...and with diligence and attention. .... Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little,...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 Seiten
...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,...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Essays. John... | |
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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,... 
