...retirement of the study, and the cautious employment of the pen. The aphorism of Lord Bacon is well known, that " reading makes a full man ; writing a correct man ; and conversation a ready man." Lord Byron's reading had been considerable in certain departments of literature. He tells Mr. Dallas,...

...recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man. To this we may add, that the Class Lyceum cultivates all the best means of public and private influence...

...recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man. To this we may add, that the Class Lyceum cultivates all the best means of public and private influence...

...recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man. To this we may add, that the Class Lyceum cultivates all the best means of public and private influence...

...recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man. To this we may add, that the Class Lyceum cultivates all the best means of public and private influence...

...recommendation, that they fully meet the just and felicitous thoughts of Lord Bacon, when he says, that reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man. To this we may add, that the Class Lyceum cultivates all the best means of public and private influence...

...is yet without an exponent. Some great men, indeed, have made a show of doing it honor, — honor, I say, and not justice ; Bacon, among the rest. He...unless they can be used readily ! What avails his armor to the owner if it be hung out of the way ? or to the swordsman his speculative science, his...

...conversation gives a facility of using that knowledge to the hest advantage. "Reading," says Lord Bacon, "makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man." Knowledge laid up in writing, and hy writing stored in the memory, may he compared to the stock of...

...my appetite for mental food. I was mentally omnivorous. I thought frequently of Bacon's aphorism, " reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man," and I often resolved to be governed by it, but never succeeded. I would add to the first branch —...

...my appetite for mental food. I was mentally omnivorous. I thought frequently of Bacon's Aphorism, " reading makes a full man, writing a correct man, and conversation a ready man," and I often resolved to be governed by it, but never succeeded. I would add to the first branch —...