 | Legrand (cit.) - English poetry - 1800 - 356 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...every man that is most ready to talk is not most able to write. lie that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as...French, and Italian, do make all, things dark and hard. Once I communed with a man which rea' soiled the English tongue to be enriched, and encreased thereby,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...French, and Italian, do make all things dark and hard. Once I communed with a man which reasoned the English tongue to be enriched and encreased thereby,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...French, and Italian, do make all things dark and hard. Once I communed with a man which reasoned the English tongue to be enriched and encreased thereby,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...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 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 - Archery - 1815 - 428 pages
...ROGER ASCHAM, PRECEPTOR TO QUEEN ELIZABETH. A NEW EDITION. " 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." TOXOPHILDS. LONDON* '•' '-' PRINTED FOR WHITE, COCK&Atix'; 'AND COO., HORACE'S HEAD, '' ' ' MDCCCXV.'... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...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 - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...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 - Cooking, English - 1835 - 476 pages
...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... | |
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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 : as so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
