| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy e To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness...of sleep. [Expulsion from Paradise.'] [From the s little, he hod need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem... | |
| 1855 - 602 páginas
...arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...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 canning to seem... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 páginas
...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,...little, he 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... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 páginas
...chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Arid, therefore, if a man write little, he 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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready...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... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 páginas
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...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... | |
| London univ - 1846 - 326 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,...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... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 páginas
...few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. .... Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly - - . little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth... | |
| 1846 - 838 páginas
...nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " 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... | |
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