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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works - Page 498
by Francis Bacon - 1858
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Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ...

John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 4 Advantage of having the Counsel of a Friend. There is as much difference between the counsel that...
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English Grammar: Style, Rhetoric, and Poetry ; to which are Added ...

Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 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.— Essays. John Milton, born 1608, died 1674. him, as we may the...
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The London University Calendar

London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...chewed and digested. 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 impediment...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...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 have...subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ,(, . . . The Fifty-first, "Of Faction,"...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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 have...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, suhtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, ahle to contend. Aheunt studia...
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The Journal of Health and Disease, Volume 1

1846 - 838 pages
...nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " If a man write little, he had need have a great memory;...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise; Poets, witty; the Mathematics, subtle; Natural Philosophy,...
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Bacon: His Writings and His Philosophy

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...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 have...need have a present wit; and if he read little, he bad need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...waters, flashy things, ¡leading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing аи exact man ; Phœbus loves, and does inspire ; Phœbus is himself...things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of firent men which adorned...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...waters, flashy things. Reading makcth 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 ho confer little, he had need have a present wit ; anil if he read little, he had need have much cunning,...
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