 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...Write little, he had need have a great memory i if he Confer little, he had need have a prefent wit j and if he Read little, he had need have much cunning to feem to know that he doth net. Hiftories make men Wife, Pacts Witty, the Mat••mmatickf Subtil,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a prefentwit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to feem to know that he doth not. BACOK. CHA P. k X, ON SATIRICAL WIT. r— HP RUST me, this unwary pleafantry... | |
 | English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...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 to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. M i34 THE ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR. ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. -L HE English delight in silence more... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 to seem to know that he doth not. BACON.. € HA PX On satirical — JL R UST me, this unwary pleasantrj7 of thine ' will sooner or late*... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1811 - 428 pages
...write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, be 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. SECTION II. Hamlet's directions to the Player*, SPEAK the speech, I pray you as I pronounced it to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...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,...doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematic subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend; " Abeunt... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a pleasant wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. IBID. HISTORIES make men wise, poett witty, witty, the mathematics subtile, natural philosophy deep,... | |
 | 1812 - 576 pages
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 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1812 - 572 pages
...Rose, late a sea, . rnau of HM Ship L'lmpetucuy.. izmo. pp. uz. Printed at BACON sakl that, " if a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth uot:" but of this cunning Mr. Rose was not possessed ; nor are his errors of style and his deficiency... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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,...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ;... | |
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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... 
