 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...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 make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...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 make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 pages
...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 make men wise, poets witty, the mathematies subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." Lord... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...Studies Essay 50 19 Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. .VoKum Organum 1620 20 Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ;)/ Studies Essay 50 21 The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.... | |
 | David J. Silk - 1995 - 182 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' from 'Of Studies' by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 2.1 Introduction This chapter provides the foundation... | |
 | Nancy Carrick, Lawrence Finsen - 1997 - 324 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. (Bacon 175) Anaphora... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 740 Essays 'Of Studies' for not printing any list of subscribers; one, that...all the names; the other, that I have spent all t rbetoric, able to contend. 741 Essays 'Of Superstitlon' There is a superstitlon in avoiding superstitlon.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 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. 11 Histories make men wise, poets witty; the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep; moral grave,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit [ready mind]; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Francis Bacon, 1597/1625, 'Of Studies', in Essays [cf. 1:20] 20:5 [George] Books are on their way out,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer0 little, he had need have a present wit;0 and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. K History makes men wise, poets witty;0 the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep; moral grave,0... | |
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