 | 1832 - 670 páginas
...present wit : and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia in mores,' ' Studies pass into... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...other occasions. ENGAGE IN STUDIES OPPOSITE TO THE FAVOURITE PDRSIHT. Histories make men wise ; poetry, witty ; the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy,...moral, grave ; logic, and rhetoric, able to contend. " Abeunt studia in mores." Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 páginas
...Quintillian. (a) Rule. Engage in studies opposite to the favourite pursuit. Histories make men wise; poetry, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studio in mores. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 páginas
...present wit ; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, 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... | |
 | 1837 - 608 páginas
...little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.' It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 páginas
...others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. " U Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics...moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." Each sentence is an aphorism — every paragraph maximized — and the thirty new Essays, which, notwithstanding... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 páginas
...present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 páginas
...little, have a present wit; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.' It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 páginas
...little, have a present wit ; and if he read little, have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise, poets witty, the mathematics subtle, natural philosophy deep, morals grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend." It will hardly be disputed that this is a passage... | |
 | 1872 - 858 páginas
...Christian teachers. And I may fitly preface my remarks with a sentence from Lord Bacon's Essays : — " Histories make men •wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics,...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend." I should prefer saying of logic that, when intelligently studied, it makes men able to diminish the... | |
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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... 
