 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready...little, he had need: have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit -r and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...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, to seem... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...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, to seem... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore...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, to seem... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had iieed have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little,... | |
 | Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...Coronation, of a king, confers no royal authority upon him." " Reading makes a full man, conferenve a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...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, to seem... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready...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, to seem... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,...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, to seem... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...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, to seem... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...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, to seem... | |
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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 to... 
