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,... Literary Studies from the Great British Authors - Página 43por Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 440 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 páginas
...an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Beam. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in the twentieth, make... | |
| 1832 - 670 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep:... | |
| John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 páginas
...the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. LORD BACON. LESSON LXVIII. Speech of Logan. 1. In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep... | |
| Time - 1835 - 274 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep... | |
| 1835 - 430 páginas
...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he need have great memory : if he conter little, he had need have a present wit : and if he read little,... | |
| 1837 - 608 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...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 - 1838 - 894 páginas
...in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 páginas
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading makelh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man ; and therefore...little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a...had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep... | |
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