 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,...  Philosophical works - Page 301by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abeunl studio, in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. • BACON. CHAP. X. ON SATIRICAL- WIT. — TRUST me, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,...the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. 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. — Lord Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. 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. — Lord Baam. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Beam. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in the twentieth, make it manifest.... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...Some hooka also may be read by deputy, aud extracts made of them by others; but that would only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort...Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. LORD BACON. LESSON LXVIII. Speech of Logan. 1. In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery and murder... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...observation. ^Iratl not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he need have great memory : if he conter little, he had need have a present wit : and if he...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logick and rhetorick, able to contend... | |
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