 ... 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, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep...  The Heavenly Twins - Page 126by Sarah Grand (pseud.) - 1893 - 679 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 lehte
...full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral, grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. Lord Bacon. A writer in the 63rd number of the Quarterly Review, justly complains of our poverty in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 lehte
...Rule. Engage in studies opposite to the favourite pursuit. Histories make men wise; poetry, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studio in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 lehte
...ENGAGE IN STUDIES OPPOSITE TO THE FAVOURITE PDRSIHT. Histories make men wise ; poetry, witty ; the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic, and rhetoric, able to contend. " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 lehte
...need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores: nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 lehte
...few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. " U Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." Each sentence is an aphorism — every paragraph maximized — and the thirty new Essays, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 lehte
...need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; ' Abeunt studia in mores ;' nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | 1872 - 858 lehte
...remarks with a sentence from Lord Bacon's Essays : — " Histories make men •wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." I should prefer saying of logic that, when intelligently studied, it makes men able to diminish the... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 lehte
...occasions. ENGAGE IN STUDIES OPPOSITE TO THE FAVORITE PURSUIT. Histories make men wise : poetry, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 lehte
...few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. " f Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." Each sentence is an aphorism — every paragraph maximized — and the thirty new Essays, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 lehte
...need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abettnt studia in mores; nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by... | |
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