...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, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy,...

...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...a present wit; and if he read little, he had need of much cunning, to seem to know what he doth not.—Bacon, 536. Thou mayst make thyself more learned...

...JANE AUSTEN (1775-181 7), English novelist. Catherine Morland, in Northangcr Abbey, ch. 14 (1818). 3 F ̙, FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essjys, "OS Studies' (1597-1625)....

...boundaries of polite learning were capacious. In his first collection of essays Francis Bacon wrote that "histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,...philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."8 In Queene Elizabethe's Achademy (1570), Sir Humphrey Gilbert, himself a specimen of the...

...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, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not' from 'Of Studies' by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 2.1 Introduction This chapter provides...

...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, 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...

...Harold's Pilgrimage, "cto. 3, st. 107 (1812-1818). Referring to historian Edward Gibbon. History 1 Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics...deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Studies" (1597-1 625)....

...maketh a full man; conference10 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, he had need have a present wit;12 and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories...

...outcomes and to shape modern concepts of individual as well as societal freedoms and rights. INTRODUCTION Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics,...moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon (1625) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. — James...

...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, he had need have a present wit [ready mind]; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not....