 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...deputy, and extracts mode of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...matters, if I have often conference with your servant. Sidney. Reading makes 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 amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. 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... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
...deputy, and extracts made of them by others8 ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books...flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man 9 ; and therefore, if a man write little, he need have a good memory;... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - 1830 - 696 pages
...may be read by deputy, and extracts of them made by others. 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 good memory ; if he confer little, he had need have much cunning, to appear to know what he doth not.'... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...deputy, aud extracts made of them by others; but that would only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books...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... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books...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... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books...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... | |
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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... 
