 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 80 and writing an exact man: and therefore, if a man...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 35 EXERCISE VIII. Influence of Human Knowledge. — E. EVERETT. We are composed of two elements : the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...waters, flashy things.3 Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man.4 And therefore, if a man write little, he had need...mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; 6 logic and rhetoric able to contend.6 Abeunt studia in mores. [The studies pass into the manners.]... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...some few 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,...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. The greatest of errors is the mistaking or misplacing the last and farthest end of knowledge. For many... | |
 | James Wills (of Upton.) - 1864 - 282 pages
...about it. Bacon says : — " Beading maketha full man, and writing an exact man, and conference a ready man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he had...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." As a means of bringing the mind into a well-disciplined condition, and giving to it that patience which... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : 'Abeunt studia... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...: and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. IV. BOOKS.— CHANNIKO. IT is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...such attempt must be. distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh [8] a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth Without going the length of Montaigne, who says that ' every abridgment of a book is a foolish abridgment.'... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need of a great memory ; if ha eocfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtle ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. BEAUTT AND UTILITT.... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need of a great memory ; if he sonfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematios subtle ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, 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,... 
