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,... The Southern literary messenger - Página 1951838Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, 30 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, to seem to know... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 páginas
...things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, there7ore, what we ev'ry one can swear Our eyes themselves have seen appear, That, when he hail need have a iresent wit ; and if he read little, he had need have mich cunning, to seem to... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1851 - 278 páginas
...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 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... | |
| 1852 - 780 páginas
...bt chewed and digested. 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...he read little, have much cunning to seem to know On: he doth not. Histories make men wise, poeu witty, the mathematics subtle, natural phi!o*»phy deep,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...Waters, flafhy Things. Reading maketh a full Man ; Conference a ready Man ; and Writing an exa£t Man. And therefore, if a Man write little, he had need have a great Memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a prefent Wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much Cunning, to feem to know... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 páginas
...meaner sort of books. 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, to seem to know... | |
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 páginas
...be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need...seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric... | |
| Henry Stevens (Jr.) - 1853 - 136 páginas
...waters, flashy things : Reading maketh a fnll 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 hare mnch cnnning, to meem to know... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 páginas
...CONVERSATION, AND WRITING. — 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, to seem to know... | |
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