 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 828 pages
...matters, if I have often conference with your servant. Sidney. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...best in a body that is comely, and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. Bacon. 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. Id.... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - Pastoral theology - 1830 - 696 pages
...may be read by deputy, and extracts of them made by others. 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 good memory ; if he confer little, he had need have much cunning, to appear to know what he doth not.'... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 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... | |
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man...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 essays - 1833 - 228 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... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 606 pages
...extremely judicious. ' Reading maketh a full man, speaking maketh a ready man, writing maketh an exact man. Therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he speak little, he had need have a ready wit; and if he read little, he had need have a great deal of... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 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...exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he need have great memory : if he conter little, he had need have a present wit : and if he read little,... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else disiilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, thereforp, if a man write little, he need have great memory : il he confer little, he had need have... | |
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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... 
