 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore h, it is with a communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...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 present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not BACON. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 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;... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 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, natural... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...535. Beading 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;...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...535. 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;...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon, 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...535. Beading 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;...little, he had need have a present wit; and if he readjittle, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...535. Beading 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; >f he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...Shaftesbiiry. Heading 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. — Lard Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should... | |
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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,... 
