 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871
...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... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 332 páginas
...present wit ; and if he reads 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. Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies ; like as diseases... | |
 | School board readers - 1872
...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: " studiesinfluence the manners ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought... | |
 | 1872
...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... | |
 | 1872
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 240 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 studio, in mores? Nay, there is no stond 6 or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out... | |
 | 1873 - 112 páginas
...openin8 of the Eton Library in 1833. "Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."— Lord Bacon. " Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read Nature. .¿Eschylus and Aristotle,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873
...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... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1874 - 641 páginas
...Newton. much cunning, to seem to know that 1 he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; *he mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; 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 4... | |
 | Francis Storr - 1874
...cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; 28 the mathematic subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : " Abeunt studio, in mores"2 9 —nay, there is no stond 3 °or impediment in the wit, but may be... | |
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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... 
