...arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready...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...

...books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,...that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able...

...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. 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. — Lord Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,...

...bitterly on you, for putter-on Of these exactioni. U. Henry VIII. 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. Lord Bacon. Light and lewd persons, especially that the exacler of the oath did neither use exhortation,...

...almost lost their force of writing.—Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.—Lord Baam. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,...

...best in a body that is comely, and that hath rather dignity of presence than beauty of aspect. Bacon. If a man write little, he had need have a great memory...if he read little, he had need have much cunning. Id. He was appointed admiral, and presented battle to the French navy, which they refused. Haytcard....

...an exact man j and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he cmfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Bacon. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in the twentieth, make it manifest....

...matters, if I have often conference with your servant. Sidney. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,...write little, he. had need have a great memory ; if he cpnfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning,...

...your servant. Sidney. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man j and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he ctmfer little, he had need have a present wjt ; and, if he read little, he had need have much cunning,...

...arguments, and the meaner sort .of books ; else distilled Bo.oks are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; Conference a ready...know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, Poets witty, the Mathematics subtle; Naturalrphilosophy deep ; Moral grave ; Logic and Rhetoric able to contend;...