| Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 páginas
...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... | |
| 1863 - 972 páginas
...intends to succeed in his vocation. To quote Bacon again : — " 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 need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know that... | |
| Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 páginas
...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 80 and writing an exact man: and therefore, if a man...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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 páginas
...some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 páginas
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 páginas
...others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore...cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make mou wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philoBophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
| John Tulloch - 1866 - 308 páginas
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Eeading 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 have... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1866 - 618 páginas
...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 need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
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