 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Essays. John Milton, born 1608, died 1674. him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. .... Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.f . . . The Fifty-first, "Of Faction," begins and ends as follows : — Many... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...some few to he read wholly, and with diligence and attention Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, suhtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, ahle to contend. Aheunt studia... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...distilled waters, flashy things, ¡leading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing аи year ! Thee Phœbus loves, and does inspire ; Phœbus...things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of firent men which adorned... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact irian ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is> no stand or impediment in the wit, but may tie. wrought... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact mnn ; a voice cry, Sleep no SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of great men which adorned the reigns of Elizabeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full , man; conference a ready man; and writing an ex- , net to be found. As for the possibility, they are ill...is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. But : " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...*man;^ancl wntînglm'exaet тагГПапЗ,"ТНегеТо7е7 iTa"man"write Httle,1fe~TíaT~ñeed ter branch, touching impression, hath not been collected...the consideration is double : " Either how, and how ; "Abeunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
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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,... 
