 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 Oxford Book of English Prose - Trang 139được biên tập bởi - 1925 - 1092 trangXem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 trang
...*man;^ancl wntînglm'exaet тагГПапЗ,"ТНегеТо7е7 iTa"man"write Httle,1fe~TíaT~ñeed have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need...not.\ (Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ;... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 trang
...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...and if he read little he had need have much cunning, and seem to know that he doth not. 9. There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 trang
...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. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It... | |
 | 1851 - 278 trang
...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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — BACON. DANCING DEEV1SB. THE SHORES OF GREECE. HE who bath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 trang
...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...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. CHAPTER X. ON SATIRICAL WIT. TRUST me, this unweary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 trang
...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...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : • " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 trang
...conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need haw a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need...little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that5 he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 trang
...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...not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 trang
...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...need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth LI. OF FACTION. MANY have an opinion not wise, that for a prince to govern his estate, or for a great... | |
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