 | Legrand (cit.) - English poetry - 1800 - 356 pages
...period of 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 - 528 pages
...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 wise men do : as -so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...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 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. Many English writers... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...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
...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 wise men do : as so should every man understand him, and the judgement of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...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 wise men do: as so should every man understand him, and the judgement of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 428 pages
...English prose, instead of the pedantry of the unformed taste of his day ; and adopted, as he tells us, the counsel of Aristotle, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." The study of Greek was the reigning pursuit in the days of Ascham. At the dispersion of the Greeks... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors, English - 1841 - 426 pages
...English prose, instead of the pedantry of the unformed taste of his day ; and adopted, as he tells us, the counsel of Aristotle, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." The study of Greek was the reigning pursuit in the days of Ascham. At the dispersion of the Greeks... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 462 pages
...English prose, instead of the pedantry of the unformed taste of bis day ; and adopted, as he tells us, the counsel of Aristotle, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." The study of Greek was the reigning pursuit in the days of Ascham. At the dispersion of the Greeks... | |
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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 : and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. 
