 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...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;...rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ,(, . . . The Fifty-first, "Of Faction," begins and ends as follows : — Many have an opinion, not... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 pages
...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 :...rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies : like as... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...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;...logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.f . . . The Fifty-first, "Of Faction," begins and ends as follows : — Many have an opinion,... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 pages
...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;...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Essays. John Milton, born 1608, died 1674. him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...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;...Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, suhtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, ahle to contend. Aheunt studia... | |
 | 1846 - 838 pages
...discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " If a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ;...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise; Poets, witty; the Mathematics, subtle; Natural Philosophy,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, to clothe the thoughts of a pander in the style of...bellman, were now the favourite writers of the sove subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...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 bad need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not./ Histories make men wise ; poets, witty... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...writing аи exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if ll things upon earth, Life is no longer than thy mirth. kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of firent men which adorned... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...little, he had need have a great memory ; if ho confer little, he had need have a present wit ; anil cful heat not fervent be, For fear of bunting her sunshiny f kuow that he doth not. SIR WALTKR RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of great men which adorned... | |
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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,... 
