| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 sidor
...strange that the essay should have been a production of his youth, and the letter of his old age. Wo will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles....present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to Beem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics suhtle, natural... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 sidor
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a he spirit, and is forcible while the object remaineth,...communication of the breath or vapour of the object odorate ; he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 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, if a man write little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 sidor
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. 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 had need have a present wit; and if he readjittle, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 sidor
...books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy 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... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 sidor
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. 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 had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know... | |
| 1855 - 396 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,...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 Potts - 1855 - 588 sidor
...justly to incur the disapprobation of man.— WB Clulow. 535. Beading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...man write little, he had need have a great memory; >f he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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,...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 1 Privateness. Privacy. Sec... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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,...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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