 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,...  Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley - Page 115by Cassell, ltd - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory : if he confer little, he had need hai ea present wit : and if he read little, he had need have...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. - . . ,, Section 11. HAMLET'S DIRECTIONS TO THE PLAYERS. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; "Abeunt studia... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; mo. ral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt stndia... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...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...Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...write 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 seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAP. X. ON SATIRICA1. WIT. — TRUST me, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...writing an exact 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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, "able to contend; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abeunl studio,... | |
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