 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,...  The Harvard Classics - Page 1251909Full view - About this book
 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. M i34 THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. -L HE English delight in silence more... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON.. € HA PX On satirical — JL R UST me, this unwary pleasantrj7 of thine ' will sooner or late*... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, be had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. SECTION II. Hamlet's directions to the Player*, SPEAK the speech, I pray you as I pronounced it to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematic subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a pleasant wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. IBID. HISTORIES make men wise, poett witty, witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ;... | |
 | 1818 - 506 pages
...therefore, if a man write little, he bad 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 to seem to know that which he doth not.'" To combine all this useful application, I should wish you to make use of Locke's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. " Our Studies pass into our manners, ie our manners show what our Studies have been." Nay, there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deej), moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. " Our Studies pass into our manners, ie our... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...rhetoric, able to contend : Abeunt studio in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases... | |
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