 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,...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 1951838Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...waters, flashy 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 ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...be chewed and 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...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...be chewed and 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...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Arid, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...waters, flashy 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 ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much canning to seem to know... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...waters, flashy 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 ; 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly man, and writing an exact man. im up by name to the hatred of a profligate court...thoughts of a pander in the style of a bellman, were no wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
 | Richard Hiley - English language - 1846 - 330 pages
...waters, flashy 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 ; 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...diligence and attention 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 seem to know... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...chewed and 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, he had need have a present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know... | |
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