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,... Essays, moral, economical, and political - Page 163by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882Full view - About this book
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a prefentwit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to feem to know that he doth not. BACOK. CHA P. k X, ON SATIRICAL WIT. r— HP RUST me, this unwary pleafantry... | |
| English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. M i34 THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. -L HE English delight in silence more... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON.. € HA PX On satirical — JL R UST me, this unwary pleasantrj7 of thine ' will sooner or late*... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, be had need have a present wit ; and if he read little,...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. SECTION II. Hamlet's directions to the Player*, SPEAK the speech, I pray you as I pronounced it to... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a pleasant wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. IBID. HISTORIES make men wise, poett witty, witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
| 1818 - 506 pages
...an exact man : and therefore, if a man write little, he bad need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he...he had need have much cunning to seem to know that which he doth not.'" To combine all this useful application, I should wish you to make use of Locke's... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deej), moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. " Our... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. " Our... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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...not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend... | |
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