 | 1818 - 506 pages
...man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man : and therefore, if a man write little, he bad need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that which he doth not.'" To combine all this useful application, I should wish you... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...things. 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...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...things. 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...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...things. 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 read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...things. Reading makes 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...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Section il. HAMLET'S DIRECTIONS TO THE PLAYERS. Speak the speech,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...things. 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 hai ea present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...things. 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 read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ;... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...things. Heading makcth 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 read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ;... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - 1822 - 376 pages
...See CUM. " Reading makes a full man, ctmference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore, if a man write little he had need have a great memory,...present wit, and if he read little he had need have mnch cuuning, to seem to have that which he hath not." Bacon. Confess. See CUM. To acknowledge a crime;... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...things. 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 -r and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAP.... | |
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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,... 
