 | Jane Yolen, Patrick Nielsen Hayden - Fiction - 2005 - 292 pages
...guess I'll read a few books about it." The Genius replaced his glasses. "Reading is good," he said. " 'Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.' " He fixed me with a bright, expectant look, like... | |
 | Chinese language - 2006 - 528 pages
...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,...deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores'". Nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...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,...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. "Studies go to... | |
 | Rong Fan - Education - 2006 - 169 pages
...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,...Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - English literature - 2006 - 520 pages
...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,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. !> ('Of Gardens') mm^mft ° • ('men fear death as children fear to go into the dark') » } ° ' -$... | |
 | Nissim Rejwan - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 262 pages
...essay "Of Studies." "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man . . . Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: 'Abeunt studia in mores' " — and such general pedagogical gems. In what way this can qualify a pupil... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 2007 - 157 pages
...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,...little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer Httle, he had neeo have a present wit: and if be read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem... | |
 | Ron Hayhurst - 2007 - 308 pages
...the best quotes "out there," on the value of history comes from Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon noted that "Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." But what Bacon believed "a priori" is that the histories in context would be understood and accurately... | |
 | E. Dale Dickson - 2007 - 170 pages
...few are 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 if a man write little, he had need of a great memory; if he confer little he had need of a present wit; and if he read little he hath... | |
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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,... 
