| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 trang
...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... | |
| 1848 - 398 trang
...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 a little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit : and... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 trang
...waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact mnn ; a voice cry, Sleep no confer little, he had need have a present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning,... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - 372 trang
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact irian ; 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,... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 trang
...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 trang
...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, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he... | |
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 trang
...like common distilled 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 trang
...waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full , man; conference a ready man; and writing an ex- , net 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,... | |
| rev. David Williams (M.A.) - 1850 - 162 trang
...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, if a man write little, he hath need have a great memory ; if he confer little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have... | |
| Charles Bridges - 1850 - 501 trang
...may be read by deputy and extracts of them made by others. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man: and writing an exact man : and therefore if a man write little, tye had need have a good memory; if he confer little, he had need of much cunning, to appear to know... | |
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