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
| English authors - 1869 - 458 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... | |
| Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 páginas
...separation between sentences than could be denoted by a comma. " Keading 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... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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 present6 wit ; and if he reads little, he had need have much cunning,? to seem to... | |
| Class-book - 1869 - 344 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... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 páginas
...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 5. Reading' maketh a full man' ; conversation' a ready man'; and writing' an exact man': and therefore,...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... | |
| 1870 - 656 páginas
...declaration I fall back on Francis Lord Bacon (1597) : — " 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 f and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know... | |
| 1870 - 678 páginas
...declaration I fall back on Francis Lord Bacon (1597) : — " 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... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 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 Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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... | |
| Ernest Adams - 1871 - 144 páginas
...fort of Santa Cruz is placed, protects the eastern side. /. Keading 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 ready wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
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