 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...best in a body that is comely, and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. Bacon. If a man write little, he had need have a great memory...if he read little, he had need have much cunning. Id. He was appointed admiral, and presented battle to the French navy, which they refused. Haytcard.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he. had need have a great memory ; if he cpnfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to arem to know that he doth not. Bacon. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...your servant. Sidney. Reading makes 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 amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - Pastoral theology - 1830 - 696 pages
...them made by others. 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 good memory ; if he confer little, he had need have much cunning, to appear to know what he doth not.'... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...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 need...Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 need...mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...little," observes Lord Bacon, " he had need to have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need to have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need to have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not." It was said of Picus, Earl of Mirandola, that... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 606 pages
...extremely judicious. ' Reading maketh a full man, speaking maketh a ready man, writing maketh an exact man. Therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he speak little, he had need have a ready wit; and if he read little, he had need have a great deal of... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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 need...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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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,... 
