 | Legrand (cit.) - 1800 - 356 Seiten
...our literature. ' He that will write well in any tongue ' (says old Roger Ascham), must follow the counsel of ' Aristotle : to speak as the common people do; to think as ' wise men do :' and a copious model of this popular style is preserved in the common English translation of the... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 Seiten
...mostjbold in English : when surely every man that is most ready to talk is not most able to write. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as Uie common people do, to think as wise men do: as so should every man understand him, and the judgment... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 550 Seiten
...most bold in English : when surely every man that is most ready to talk is not most able to write. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise4 men do : as so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1815 - 428 Seiten
... THE ENGLISH WORKS OK ROGER ASCHAM, PRECEPTOR TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. A NEW EDITION. " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...as the common people do, to think as wise men do." TOXOPHILDS. LONDON* '•' '-' PRINTED FOR WHITE, COCK&Atix'; 'AND COO., HORACE'S HEAD, '' ' ' MDCCCXV.'... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 606 Seiten
...bold in English; when surely every man, that is most ready to talk, is not most able to write. He, that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...do: as so should every man understand him, and the judgement of wise men allow him. Many English writers have not done so, but using strange words, as... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 Seiten
...compositions will be insipid. Distil a bone, and you will have a quantity of water. 3. He that would write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle ; — to think with the learned, but speak with the common people, that these may understand, and those approve... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 312 Seiten
...expressed by himself. " He that will write well in any tongue, must speak as the common people do, think as wise men do ; as so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." This tutor of queens wrote a work he called The Schoolmaster. It is a fine treatise on education, and... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - 1832 - 304 Seiten
...expressed by himself. " He that will write well in any tongue, must speak as the common people do, think as wise men do ; as so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." -\ This tutor of queens wrote a work he called The Schoolmaster. It is a fine treatise on education,... | |
 | Editor of The family manual and servant's guide - 1835 - 476 Seiten
...phrases intelligible only to a few readers : he adopted, he tells us, the counsel of an ancient writer, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." The study of the Greek language was the fashion of this day, and Aschatn informs us that the princess... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 462 Seiten
...prose, instead of the pedantry of the unformed taste of bis day ; and adopted, as he tells us, the counsel of Aristotle, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." The study of Greek was the reigning pursuit in the days of Ascham. At the dispersion of the Greeks... | |
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He that will write well in any tongue must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
