 | Foster Watson - Education - 1909 - 648 pages
...most bold in English : when surely every man that is most ready to talk is not most able to write. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 182 pages
...to "have lived long on the alms-basket of words;" thus reversing the fine old maxim of Roger Ascham, "to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." Whatsoever, therefore, may have been the Poet's design, at all events the play, throughout, is a sham-fight... | |
 | Roger Ascham - Latin language - 1909 - 206 pages
...that will write well in any tongue," • said Ascham, "must follow this counsel 'of Aristotle, to i speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do ; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Education - 1910 - 206 pages
...idols of the Theatre, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Education - 1910 - 216 pages
...idols of the Theatre, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - Education - 1910 - 196 pages
...idols of the Theatre, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...most bold in English; when surely every man that is most ready to talk is not most able to write. He e salt sand-wave, Or on the wealth of globed peonies; Or if thy pe» pie do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Letters - 1910 - 614 pages
...pithily when he wrote in his "Toxophilus" that "he that will write well in any tongue must follow the counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as the wise men do." Language can be made in the library, no doubt, and in the laboratory also, but it... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 594 pages
...use, I, one of the meanest sort, ought not to suppose it vile for me to write. . . . He that would write well in any tongue must follow this counsel...Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as the wise men do. . . . Many English writers have not done this, but by using strange words from foreign... | |
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
