 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
 | British Pharmaceutical Conference - 1870 - 678 pages
...declaration I fall back on Francis Lord Bacon (1597) : — " Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...he had need have much cunning to seem to know that which he doth not." JOSEPH ESTCE. A CENTURY OF OLD BOOKS. Pharmacoposa, seu de Usitatiorum Medicamentorum... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - Education, Higher - 1870 - 350 pages
...(2)"Beading," saith Bacon, " maketh a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man : therefore if a man write little, he had need have...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not." Thus by the course which we shall pursue we shall seek to supply the defects of all parties. Our written... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...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 have...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. CLASSICAL LEARNING.—... | |
 | Charles BRADLAUGH - 1870 - 80 pages
...exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he...Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." He was the father... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...observation. Read 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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. . , Refer to a Biographical Dictionary, and enter in a note book a brief account of Lord Bacon and... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1871 - 396 pages
...comprehending more than directly applies to the present subject, is all pertinent to a study of Ehetoric: "If a man write little, he had need have a great memory;...he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that lie doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy,... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...observation. Read not to con.tradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abcunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...observation. Bead 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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. OF R OLD N ESS. IT is a trivial grammar-school text, but yet worthy a wise man's consideration. The... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and without diligence and attention. Some books, also, may be...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration: " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would4 , [, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: 'Abeunt studia... | |
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