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,... Composition, literary and rhetorical, simplified - Page 70by rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematic subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend;... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deej), moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able... | |
| 1821 - 416 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; mo. ral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, "able... | |
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