 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 660 páginas
...known observation of Lord Bacon is much to my present purpose. It is to this effect: That reading makes a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man. The approved extempore preacher must have a fund of knowledge collected from various reading; and it... | |
 | John Newton - 1824 - 646 páginas
...observation of Lord Bacon is much to my present purpose. It is to this effect : That reading makes a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man. The approved extempore preacher must have a fund of knowledge collected from various reading ; and... | |
 | John Newton - 1839 - 510 páginas
...observation of Lord Bacon is much to my present purpose. It is to this frt'ect: That reading makes a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man. The approved extempore preacher roust have a fund of knowledge collected from various reading : and... | |
 | 1854 - 562 páginas
...known observation of Lord Bacon is much to my present purpose. It is to this effect: that reading makes a full man, writing, an exact man, and speaking, a ready man. The approved extempore speaker must have a fund of knowledge collected from various readings, and it... | |
 | Robert Brudenell Carter - 1855 - 472 páginas
...other verbal errors, are likewise chargeable. The oftenquoted aphorism of Bacon, that reading makes a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man, owes much of its truth, as far as the contrast between the latter conditions is concerned, to the prevailing... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 páginas
...fault, not to agree and take for granted, but to weigh and consider. — Lord Bacon. — , Heading makes a full man ; writing an exact man ; and speaking a ready man. — Lord Bacon. anit C[imSmg. It is good to read, mark, learn — but it is better to inwardly digest.... | |
 | 1853 - 396 páginas
...Hitherto, we have gone little farther in this direction than the well-known maxim of Bacon, ' Reading makes a full man, writing, an exact man, and speaking, a ready man.' We might go further : What kind of man, we might ask, does oratory or versification make, and what... | |
 | C. M. V. - 1866 - 202 páginas
...before a fall. Procrastination is the thief of time. Put some hay in your wooden shoes. Eeading makes a full man ; writing an exact man ; and speaking a ready man. Eome was not built in a day. Small showers last long : violent storms are short. Small rain will lay... | |
 | Robert Temple Wright - 1867 - 232 páginas
...his teeth, -when they try to pull him to pieces in the discussion which ensues. Lord Bacon tells us "reading maketh a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man," but really you would be inclined to doubt it sometimes, or at all events you would think no one but... | |
 | 1868 - 138 páginas
...means of acquiring habits of accurate thought and intelligent study. Bacon has said that " readingmakes a full man, writing an exact man, and speaking a ready man." An engineer ought to possess all these qualities; and I appeal to your experience whether a man, though... | |
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I do not expect they will succeed in this way to my wish, without prayer, study, effort, and practice. For, as I have already hinted, I mean something more by it than speaking at random. 
