 | 1838 - 822 pages
...chewed and digested. Reading makelh в /ый тип, conference a ready man, and writing an exact «e. 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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pages
...waters, flashy things. Reading makelh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man ; and therefore if a man write little, he had need have...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy,... | |
 | M. A. Stodart - 1839 - 196 pages
...extremely judicious. ' Reading maketh a full man, speaking maketh a ready man, writing maketh an exact man. Therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he speak little, he had need have a ready wit; and if he read little, he had need have a great deal of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores;" i nay, there is no stond or impediment... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pages
...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...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 pages
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep. [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 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...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... | |
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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,... 
