 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...  The Education of Teachers - Side 149af William Harold Payne - 1901 - 272 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 sider
...indistinct. Dr. Johnson. Reading maketb a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...moral, grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend. Lord Bacon. A writer in the 63rd number of the Quarterly Review, justly complains of our poverty in... | |
 | 1832 - 670 sider
...present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia in mores,' ' Studies pass into... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 sider
...Quintillian. (a) Rule. Engage in studies opposite to the favourite pursuit. Histories make men wise; poetry, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studio in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 sider
...other occasions. ENGAGE IN STUDIES OPPOSITE TO THE FAVOURITE PDRSIHT. Histories make men wise ; poetry, witty ; the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy,...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... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 sider
...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...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 by... | |
 | 1837 - 608 sider
...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 will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 sider
...others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. " U Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." Each sentence is an aphorism — every paragraph maximized — and the thirty new Essays, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 sider
...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 ; the mathematics,...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 sider
...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 will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 sider
...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 will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
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