...about to study. It may be suggested to the teacher, to put before his pupils, previously to [9] not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; rhetoric and logic, able to contend; " Absurd studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stond or impediment...

...Essay l. Of Studies. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ibid. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. ibid. I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; from the which as men of course do seek to receive...

...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." In the above extract, the careful reader will note that several words are used with a signification...

...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to Contend. 59. OF ADVERSITY. But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance, the virtue of adversity...

...wit' ; and if he read little', he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. 6. Histories' make men wise'; poets', witty' ; the mathematics', subtile' ; natural philosophy', deep' ; moral philosophy', grave' ; logic and rhetoric', able to contend'. Indeed, there is no stand or impediment...

...present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abcunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out...

...wit' ; and if he read little', he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. 6. Histories' make men wise' ; poets', witty' ; the mathematics'-, subtile' ; natural philosophy', deep' ; moral philosophy', grave' ; logic and rhetoric', able to contend'. Indeed, there is no stand or impediment...

...but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; morals, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Same. Bead, not to contradict and confute,...

...but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; morals, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Same. Read, not to contradict and confute,...

...been created for him 1 "—Sir John Herschel's address at the openin8 of the Eton Library in 1833. "Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."— Lord Bacon. " Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read Nature. .¿Eschylus and...