 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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. TIIE END OF KNOWLEDGE. Tt is an assured truth, and a conclusion of... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 pages
...I!' .iilini< maketh a lull mnn . 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 cunuing, to Deem to know that be doth not. — l.ord JJacon. cCI.XXXIV. To judge rightly of our own... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have 1 Privateness. Privacy. Sec page 87. ' Make. Gice. See page 420. 3 Curiously. Attentively. ' At first... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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 lie confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
 | David J. Silk - Business & Economics - 1995 - 182 pages
...management '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' from 'Of Studies' by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 2.1 Introduction This... | |
 | Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen - Education - 1997 - 324 pages
...Clauses 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 subtle, natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...things. Reading maketh a full man; conference10 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;12 and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 604 pages
...Essays 20:4 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 [ready mind]; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Reading maketh a Full Man; Conference a Rea-|dy Man; And [2P3V] Writing an Exact Man. And therefore, If a Man Write little, he had need have a Great memory; If he Conferre little, he had need have a Present Wit; And if he Reade litle, he had need have much Cunning,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...attention. U Reading maketh a full man, conference0 a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer0 little, he had need have a present wit;0 and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
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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,... 
