 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus. " Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use...present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to Beem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics suhtle, natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a he spirit, and is forcible while the object remaineth,...communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters — flashy things. 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 present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 of much cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he readjittle, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore,...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... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...man write little, he had need have a great memory; >f he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...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 1 Privateness. Privacy. Sec... | |
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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,... 
