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,... Literary Studies from the Great British Authors - Página 43por Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 440 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 páginas
...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,...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 doth not. Histories... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like common th. And as for the smelling, which indeed worketh...communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 páginas
...in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters — flashy things. Reading maketh...therefore, if a man write 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... | |
| 1855 - 578 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral... | |
| 1855 - 396 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 páginas
...the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready...had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 páginas
...to incur the disapprobation of man.— W. £. Clulow. 535. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon, 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 páginas
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...little, he had need have a present wit; and if he readjittle, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. TIIE END OF KNOWLEDGE. Tt is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little... | |
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