| 1838 - 870 pages
...Reading maketh a fall man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact mm. And therefore if a mnn 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 not. Histories... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...things. Reading makelh 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 what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle... | |
| M. A. Stodart - Books and reading - 1839 - 196 pages
...judicious. ' Reading maketh a full man, speaking maketh a ready man, writing maketh an exact man. Therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he speak little, he had need have a ready wit; and if he read little, he had need have a great deal of... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...digested. 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, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 602 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...wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much canning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty ; the mathematics,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, k, as now, thy gift of sleep. [Expulsion from Paradise.'] [From the same.] He en hod need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...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 not. Histories... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...digested. 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, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
| John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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. 4 Advantage of having the Counsel of a Friend. There is as much difference... | |
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