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" 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 286
por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 744 páginas
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 páginas
...the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books. 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...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 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...
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English grammar and style

Richard Hiley - 1853 - 310 páginas
...distilled hooks 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 ueed have much cunning, to seem to...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 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 hare much cunning, to seem to know...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Beading 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...
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Catalogue of My English Library

Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 páginas
...dislilled hooks are, like common distilled waters, flashy things : Reading maketh a fnll 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 hare mnch cnnning, to meem to know...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...others. — Colton. READING, CONVERSATION, AND WRITING. — 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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 páginas
...but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference...present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to Beem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics suhtle, natural...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a he spirit, and is forcible while the object remaineth,...communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know...
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