 ... consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 41872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment only by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no slond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...and are perfected by experience — for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need priming by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. TilF, END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...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 present wit; and if he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not BACON. 106. The Passions. WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung,... | |
 | 1855 - 578 pages
...be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Scmj books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made...deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Scm3 books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made...deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. As a theologian, Bacon possessed an intimate acquaintance with the Bible, and was a believer in the... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 pages
...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important argaments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not." I add one very fine illustration : " If the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. TIIE END OF KNOWLEDGE. Tt is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | 1856 - 374 pages
...have almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbiiry. Heading 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. — Lard Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if lie confer little, he had need have a present wit; and...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : "Abeunt studia in mores ; " 2 nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought... | |
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