 | 1913 - 234 páginas
...make a great book. Ascham, writing his 165 Toxophilus under Henry VIII, proposed to follow the maxim of Aristotle, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." But the scholar who, when " of good years," zealously planned a book on cocknghting, was wise only... | |
 | 474 páginas
...gentlemen and yeomen of England,5 he took as his guide the counsel of Aristotle; that the writer should try 'to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do', for 'so should every man understand him and the judgment of wise men 1 Ibid. pp. 67, 69-70. 1 Ibid.... | |
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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
