...in the United States Paris in France. 13. Virtue brings its own reward vice its own punishment. 14. Reading makes a full man conversation a ready man and writing an exact man. 15. The shrub is taller than the flower which grows in its shade the tree than the shrub the rock...

...students provided they are properly conducted. You all know the saying of a great philosopher, — "reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man," and debating or discussion serve the same purpose as conversation, and perhaps in a better way....

...specifications and plans. To do these things properly he must command and know how to use the tools of language. Lord Bacon tells us that "reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." Engineering is an exact science; accuracy is the one column on which the whole structure is reared....

..."most widely [to] diffuse and most agreeably impart" their knowledge. Citing Francis Bacon's advice that "reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man," Johnson discusses each element, devoting most attention to how to communicate useful and pleasurable...

...We begin as we do in the earlier essay with a commonplace (taken from Bacon's essay, "Of Studies"): "[R]eading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." 36 The recent ascendancy of a theory that disparages traditional learning is mentioned— An...

...depression, sinks down and drowns. ESSAYS OF DR. JOHNSON. (From The Adventurer.") IT 18 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 attained by any other man, the directions...

...that "the proper study of mankind is man." Bacon tersely puts the methods of mental training thus: "Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." It is along these lines that true mental discipline must ever follow. Sir Thomas Browne, in his...

...Therein the patient must minister to himself. MACBETH : Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man. Therefore, if a man write little, he needs a great memory; if he converses little, he wants a...

...oral and written reviews, we may safely take our cue from the almost hackneyed quotation) from Bacon, "Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.'' The oral method will lead to facility in thought and expression, while the written will tend...