 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 pages
...lived long on the alms-basket of words j" thus reversing the fine old maxim of Roger Ascham, •• to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." Whatsoever, therefore, may have been the Poet's design, at all events the play, throughout, is a sham... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...to " Toxophilus," a treatise on Archery. " 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." Ascham was the author... | |
 | Shuttleworth family - England - 1858 - 440 pages
...model of a pure English prose style. His general direction to the gentlemen and yeomen of England was " To speak as the common people do ; to think as wise men do." Thomas Wilson, in his "Art of Rhetorick" (1553) complains of the number of foreign terms and phrases... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1858 - 430 pages
...model of a pure English prose style. His general direction to the gentlemen and yeomen of England was "To speak as the common people do; to think as wise men do." Thomas Wilson, in his "Art of Rhetorick" (1553) complains of the number of foreign terms and phrases... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - American literature - 1859 - 1030 pages
...and handling, that no man can do worse. ... He that will write well In any tongue nmst follow this counsel of Aristotle : to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do : as BO should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." The book ia a dialogue... | |
 | George Winfred Hervey - 1860 - 422 pages
...expression is best suited for colloquial intercourse. In all cases, Aristotle's rule is a good one, " to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." — ED. f " A compliment," it has been well observed, -' is generally accompanied by a bew, as if to... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...of our peasantry, that to this day the best advice for purity of style is that of Koger Ascnam's, ' to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.' And one of the first things that strikes us in the registers is the English straggling through the... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1862 - 438 pages
...talk, is not most able to wrike. He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel <>! 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
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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. 
