| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...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 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,... | |
| Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 pages
...Reading maketh a full man ; conference, a ready mac ; 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...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 have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have 1 Privateness.-... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...things.4 Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man.6 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,... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...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 present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunnmg to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon. If I were to pray for a taste which should stand by... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1625.... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...attention. Reading makcth 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 512 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1626.... | |
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