 | F. Peel - 1874 - 144 sider
...done without the King's concurrence is the act only of private men. — Blackatone. EXERCISE XCVIII. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading makes a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1875 - 468 sider
...conscionable. — MARKHAM. ' CONCISE STYLE. Studies. — Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested that is some books...flashy things. Reading maketh a full man conference u, ready man and writing an exact man and therefore if a man write little he had need have a great... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 sider
...their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need...important arguments and the meaner sort of books. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 sider
...to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 25 Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts...flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference 30 a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1876 - 272 sider
...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would IT be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner...distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a * Expertness. '(' Whim. % Do grow in certain directions. § Outside them. || With attention to minute... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen, James Bradstreet Greenough - 1876 - 222 sider
...parts ;10 others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly,11 but with dilligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy,...others ; but that would be" only in the less important arguments12 and the meaner sort" of books ; else distilled8 books are like common distilled waters,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - 524 sider
...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would1 be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maktth a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 sider
...delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in tho judgment and disposition of business. For expert men...books, are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man : and writing, an exact man. And, therefore, if... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1877 - 214 sider
...; 10 others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, 11 but with dilligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy,...that would be " only in the less important arguments 12 and the meaner sort " of books; else distilled 0 books are like common distilled waters, flashy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 sider
...diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; 2 but that would be only in the less important arguments,...books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. 3 Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. 4 And therefore, if... | |
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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 attention. Some... 
