 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 sidor
...chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Arid, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; "if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sidor
...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,...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,... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 sidor
...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,...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 sidor
...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,...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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 sidor
...be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a irmly - - . confer little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he... | |
 | 1846 - 838 sidor
...nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. " 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sidor
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading makcth a full man, conference a "I ݃! ho confer little, he had need have a present wit ; anil if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sidor
...distilled waters, flashy things, ¡leading makcth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing аи year ! Thee Phœbus loves, and does inspire ; Phœbus is himself thy sire. To thee, of all confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sidor
...— flashy' things1. Reading' maketh a fuir man ; conference1 a ready' man ; and writing' an exact1 man. And, therefore, if a man write' little, he had need have present' wit1 ; if he confer1 little, he had need have a good1 memory'; and if he read' little, he... | |
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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 to... 
