 | British essayists - 1802 - 330 pages
...Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil fustain. FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that ' reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.' As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...Olympick prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that " reading makes a full •" man, conversation a ready man, and writing aA *' exact man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...Olympick prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRA cis. IT is observed by Bacon, that " reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...Olympick prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that " reading makes a full " man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact " man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 332 pages
...Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that ' reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.' As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 334 pages
...Olympie prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that' reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an ex* act man. 1 As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...Olympic prize to gain, AH arts must try, and every toil sustain. — FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that " reading makes a full " man, conversation a ready man, and writing an ex"act man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 pages
...Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. — FRANCIS. IT is observed" by Bacon, that " reading makes a full *« man, conversation a ready man, and writing an ex" act maa." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. — FKANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that u reading makes a full " man, conversation a ready man, and writing an ex" act man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - English essays - 1823 - 302 pages
...Olympic prize to gain, All arts must try, and every toil sustain. _ FRANCIS. IT is observed by Bacon, that " reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." As Bacon attained to degrees of knowledge scarcely ever reached by any other man, the directions... | |
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reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man. 
