| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makcth a full man ; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; mo. ral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt stndia in mores ;" nay, there is no... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...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,...; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
| Richard Harrison Black - 1822 - 376 pages
...in vice, or leagues of pleasure." Addison. Confer. See CUM. " Reading makes a full man, ctmference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and therefore,...present wit, and if he read little he had need have mnch cuuning, to seem to have that which he hath not." Bacon. Confess. See CUM. To acknowledge a crime;... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, "able to contend; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : Abeunl studio, in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had iieed have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
| Richard Harrison Black - English language - 1825 - 372 pages
...Coronation, of a king, confers no royal authority upon him." " Reading makes a full man, conferenve a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...read little he had need have much cunning, to seem to have that which he hath not." Bar-on. which a penitent makes of his sins to God : in a more restricted... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...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,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. • BACON. CHAP. X. ON SATIRICAL- WIT. — TRUST me, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,...the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit,... | |
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