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,... The Southern literary messenger - Página 1951838Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...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 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, to seem to know... | |
| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 606 páginas
...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... | |
| Time - 1835 - 274 páginas
...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 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, to seem to know... | |
| 1835 - 430 páginas
...great memory : if he conter little, he had need have a present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logick and... | |
| David Hoffman - 1836 - 468 páginas
...manner, observes that 'reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and tenting an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory.'* There can be no doubt that many have written able and learned essays, and even books, not because they... | |
| 1837 - 608 páginas
...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...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 páginas
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. cians called philanthropia ; and the word humanity, as it is used, is a little too light to he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 páginas
...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 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, to seem to know... | |
| M. A. Stodart - 1839 - 196 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...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...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
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