 | 1859 - 436 pages
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 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, ilashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1625. need have a present wit... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and in the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters,...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtle ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Reading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. — LORD BACON. Elteratl. ATTAINMENTS OF LINGUISTS. TAKING the very highest estimate which has been... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 680 pages
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 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters,...have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had 1 This Essay, first printed in 1597, was enlarged in 1612, and again in 1626. need have a present wit... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters,...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. THE PERFECT ORATOR. Imagine to yourselves a Demosthenes, addressing the most illustrious assembly... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 pages
...them by others but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters...little he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not.—BACON. NERVOUS STYLE. On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings.—In the course of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pages
...Attentively. and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy1 things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral,... | |
 | 1967 - 542 pages
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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,... 
