 | 1848 - 398 דפים
...need have a present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; "Abeunt studia in mores. " Nay, there is no stpnd or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 דפים
...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 BA.COX. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung,... | |
 | 1848 - 936 דפים
...young hearts with its intellectual beauty. " YOBICK." SHIilLEY. " IP a man read little," said .Bacon, " he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." It would seem that Bacon must have been placed in circumstances not uncommon at the present day, when... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 דפים
...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...Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 דפים
...had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read yet she wish'd That heaven had made her euch a man : — she thank'd me SIR WALTER RALEIGH. In the brilliant constellation of great men which adorned the reigns of Elizabeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 דפים
...had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read of one of the most principal instruments for action...The best composition and temperature is, to have subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : " Abeunt studia... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 דפים
...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 doth not....witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 דפים
...he hath 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 doth not. Histories make men wise, poets [poetryJ witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 דפים
...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 that he doth not. XVI WESTMINSTER ARREY. WHEN I am in a serious humour, I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey,... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 דפים
...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 that he doth not. 35 EXERCISE VIII. Influence of Human Knowledge. — E. EVERETT. We are composed of two elements : the... | |
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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,... 
