 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,...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 286by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...separation between sentences than could be denoted by a comma. " Keading maketh a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man. And, therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present6 wit ; and if he reads little, he had need have much cunning,? to seem to... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 5. Reading' maketh a full man' ; conversation' a ready man'; and writing' an exact man': and therefore,...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... | |
 | British Pharmaceutical Conference - 1870 - 656 pages
...declaration I fall back on Francis Lord Bacon (1597) : — " Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit f and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know... | |
 | British Pharmaceutical Conference - 1870 - 678 pages
...declaration I fall back on Francis Lord Bacon (1597) : — " Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And, therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...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 to know... | |
 | Ernest Adams - English language - 1871 - 144 pages
...fort of Santa Cruz is placed, protects the eastern side. /. Keading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a ready wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
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