 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 Harvard Classics - Page 1251909Full view - About this book
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 pages
...he hath 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 make men wise, poets [poetryJ witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...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...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
...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...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... | |
 | 1851 - 278 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...therefore, if a man write little, he had need haw 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 that5 he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...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...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. [Trinity College Fellowships, 1835.] 66. INDOLENCE is therefore one of the vices from which those whom... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 that he doth LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
 | Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 pages
...therefore, if a man write little, be had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little he had...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics suhtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, ahle to contend; 'Ahennt studia... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abettnt studia in... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — Lord Bacon. READING FOR THE FAMILY. — Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table,... | |
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