 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 lehte
...things. Reading maketh a full , man; conference a ready man; and writing an ex- , net man. And therefore the possibility, they are ill discoverers that think...is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. But to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 lehte
...things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 30 and writing an exact man: and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory...if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. 35 EXERCISE VIII. Influence of Human Knowledge. — E. EVERETT. We... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 lehte
...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 a great memory;...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. XVI WESTMINSTER ARREY. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 lehte
...*man;^ancl wntînglm'exaet тагГПапЗ,"ТНегеТо7е7 iTa"man"write Httle,1fe~TíaT~ñeed ter branch, touching impression, hath not been collected...been handled dispersedly ; and it hath the same rela to seem to know that he doth not.\ (Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 lehte
...things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, there7ore, what we ev'ry one can swear Our eyes themselves have seen appear, That, when we hail need have a iresent wit ; and if he read little, he had need have mich cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 lehte
...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 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 lehte
...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 a great memory...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : • " If the invention of the... | |
 | 1851 - 278 lehte
...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 a great memory...if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — BACON. DANCING DEEV1SB. THE SHORES OF GREECE. HE who bath bent... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 lehte
...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 a great memory...if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT. TRUST me, this unweary pleasantry... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 lehte
...conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need haw a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need...and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that5 he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile;... | |
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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,... 
