... and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts... The Christian's Penny Magazine - Page 561832Full view - About this book
| C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Beading maketh a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man... | |
| Electronic journals - 1853 - 748 pages
...Parvulorum occurs (r>. 25.") " barowe cenovectorum." EGR Quotations wanted (Vol. vii., p. 40.). — "And if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seeui to know that he doth not." From Lord Bacon. — Bacon's Essays: Of Studies, p. 218. 12mo., 1819.... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...books also may be read by deputy, 01 extracts of them may be made by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort...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 - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...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,...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
| Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...to incur the disapprobation of man.— W. £. Clulow. 535. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore,...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon, 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned... | |
| Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...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,...little, he had need have a present wit; and if he readjittle, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon. 536. Thou mayst... | |
| Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...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,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...Some books, also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would* be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have 1 Privateness. Privacy. Sec page 87. ' Make. Gice. See page 420. 3 Curiously. Attentively. ' At first... | |
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