 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...  Past Thirty - Page 163by Harriet Earhart Monroe - 1879 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...indistinct. Dr. Johnson. Reading maketb a 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...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: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia in mores,' ' Studies pass into... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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 ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores: nay, there is no stand... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.' It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage to be ' chewed and digested.' We do not believe that... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men Ģise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural phi.losophy...morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.' It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage to be ' chewed and digested.' We do not believe UotThucydides... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...others to be read but cursorily, and some 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... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...present wit: and if he read little, he had 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.' It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage to be ' chewed and digested.' We do not believe that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage to be " chewed and digested." We do not believe that... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." " Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.... | |
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