| William Enfield - Elocution - 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 - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...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...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
...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...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*... | |
| William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therfore if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; $n£.if he read little, he had need have muqh. cunning to .see 19 to knuw that he doth '' ;:nyiti'.?fi... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...Histories make meu wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, moral philosophy 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 fit studies, like as diseases of the body... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...man. And therefore, if a man 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,...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 - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...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
...man 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...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...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematic subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ;... | |
| 1818 - 506 pages
...ready man, and writing an exact man : and therefore, if a man write little, he bad need have a great memory ; if he confer little, he had need have a present...he had need have much cunning to seem to know that which he doth not.'" To combine all this useful application, I should wish you to make use of Locke's... | |
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