 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,...  Bacon's Essays - Page 473by Francis Bacon - 1868 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...know that he doth not. IBID. HISTORIES make men wise, poett witty, witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought ont by fit studies : like... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; "Abeunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and 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... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 pages
...indistinct. Dr. Johnson. Reading maketb a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...moral, grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. Lord Bacon. A writer in the 63rd number of the Quarterly Review, justly complains of our poverty in... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...need have a present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise : poets, witty...the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia in mores,' ' Studies pass into... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, 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 studies :... | |
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