 | 1855 - 396 sider
...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,...wit; 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,... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 sider
...attention to what is exterior, as not justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man,...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 sider
...books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...wit; 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;... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 sider
...to incur the disapprobation of man.— W. £. Clulow. 535. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 - 588 sider
...attention to what is exterior, as not justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man,...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 sider
...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,...wit; and 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 sider
...their force of writing. — Shaftesbury, \ cCI.XXXIII. I!' .iilini< maketh a lull mnn . conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 sider
...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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 sider
...others to be swallowed, and some few to bt 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 - 1856 - 406 sider
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy1 things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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,... | |
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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, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty;... 
