| 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 838
...nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " If a man write little, he had need have a great memory;...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,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 226
...some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...need have a present wit; and if he read little, he bad need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly - - . have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...distilled waters, flashy things, ¡leading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing аи year ! Thee Phœbus loves, and does inspire ; Phœbus...things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of firent men which adorned... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 712
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading makcth a full man, conference a "I ݃! ho confer little, he had need have a present wit ; anil if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...— flashy' things1. Reading' maketh a fuir man ; conference1 a ready' man ; and writing' an exact1 man. And, therefore, if a man write' little, he had need have present' wit1 ; if he confer1 little, he had need have a good1 memory'; and if he read' little, he... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...distilled books are like common distilled waters — flashy 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 present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not... | |
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...young hearts with its intellectual beauty. " YOBICK." SHIilLEY. " IP a man read little," said .Bacon, " he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." It would seem that Bacon must have been placed in circumstances not uncommon at the present day, when... | |
| 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man: and, therefore, if a man write a little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit : and... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact irian ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is> no stand or impediment in the wit, but may tie. wrought... | |
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