 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, there7ore, what we ev'ry one can swear Our eyes themselves have seen appear, That, when we hail need have a iresent wit ; and if he read little, he had need have mich cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...digested. 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, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...things. 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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — BACON. DANCING DEEV1SB. THE SHORES OF GREECE. HE who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...things. 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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : • " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 pages
...things. 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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT. TRUST me, this unweary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need haw a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that5 he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...books. 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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...things. 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...need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...Things. Reading maketh a full Man ; Conference a ready Man ; and Writing an exa£t Man. And therefore, if a Man write little, he had need have a great Memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a prefent Wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much Cunning, to feem to know that he doth not.... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore uncil ; and were awaiting in anxiety and dread for what those mysterious deli have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know On: he doth not. Histories... | |
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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,... 
