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,... Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 286por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 páginas
...books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. 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, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 564 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 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, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have 1 Privateness. Privacy. Sec... | |
| John Timbs - 1856 - 378 páginas
...their force of writing. — Shaftesbury, \ cCI.XXXIII. I!' .iilini< maketh a lull mnn . conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 cunuing, to Deem to know... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 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, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 páginas
...distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things. Reading ranfcclh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man and therefore if...he had need have a great memory if he confer little he had need have a present wit and if he read little lie had need have much cunning to seem to know... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 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, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 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, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have 1 Privateness.- Pricacy. See... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...wisdorr without them, and won by observation. Reac not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh llips, Sampson liulc, he had need h'ave a great memory ; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if lie read... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...Reac not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weift and consider. Some books are to be lasted others to be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested....man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man wriie litlle, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if lie... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, ilashy things. 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, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1625. need have a present... | |
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