 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact mnn ; a voice cry, Sleep no SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of great men which adorned the reigns of Elizabeth... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 30 and writing an exact man: and therefore, if a man...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 35 EXERCISE VIII. Influence of Human Knowledge. — E. EVERETT. We are composed of two elements : the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 páginas
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full , man; conference a ready man; and writing an ex- , net man. And therefore if a man write 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 philosophy, deep; moral,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...*man;^ancl wntînglm'exaet тагГПапЗ,"ТНегеТо7е7 iTa"man"write Httle,1fe~TíaT~ñeed ter branch, touching impression, hath not been collected...hath the same relation or antistrophe that the former (Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else listilled oncert tried, or solitary), And since it is uncertain...again, Let us as cautiously contrive To draw an exact n there7ore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he hail need... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 páginas
...delight, for ornament, and for ability. The chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT. TRUST me, this unweary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later... | |
 | 1851 - 278 páginas
...some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to bt read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — BACON. DANCING DEEV1SB. THE SHORES OF GREECE. HE who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : • " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 páginas
...conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need haw a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that5 he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy... | |
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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,... 
