...glory of the college at the critical period " under consideration. It is the remark of Lord Bacon, that " reading makes a full man ; conversation a ready man ; and writing an exact man." He might have added, that teaching includes, and has a ten^ dency to extend and rivet, the advantages...

...prize to pain, All jr is must try, und етегу toil »luluin. 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...

...oppose and degrade one another." RULE 12.—When a verb is understood, a comma must be inserted; as, " Reading makes a full man ; conversation, a ready man; and writing, an exact man." RULE 13.—The word that, used as a conjunction, is preceded by a comma; as, " Be virtuous, that...

...which are better ; otherwise, distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 5. 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 converse little, he wants a...

...The ellipsis of a verb is sometimes marked by a comma. Examp, To err is human; to forgive, divine. Reading makes a full man; conversation, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. CHAP. in. SPECIAL USES OF THE SEMICOLON, AND OTHEK POINTS. 1. WHEN, of two clauses, constituting...

...men, is the most obvious remedy." RULE 12. When a verb is understood, a comma must be inserted ; as, " Reading makes a full man ; conversation, a ready man; and writing, an exact man." RULE 13. The word that, used as a conjuDction, is preceded by a comma ; as, " Be virtuous, that...

...so momentous a topic, but, in a teacher of others, all but unpardonable. " Reading," says Bacon, " makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." Such a written statement of the scheme on which you rely for salvation, prayed over, and compared...

...not pay above two-thirds of what they cost the department. Yet Congress has carried them from one end of the country to the other, and the sole reason has...exact man." There is no more salutary discipline of tlie mind than the exercise of mastering its thought's, and arranging them in order, so as to express...

...minds of a rising generation to a pitch of intellectual advancement far beyond their predecessors. few lines of necessary information, and, at sixty,...discipline of the mind than the exercise of mastering its thought's, and arranging them in order, so as to express them to its own satisfaction with the pen....

...inspiration. Means must, of course, be employed to attain them. Lord Chancellor Bacon has somewhere said — " Reading makes a full man; conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man." This maxim is not only just, but it is applicable to every department of knowledge and of mental...