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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. "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 72
by George Burnett - 1807
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 428 pages
...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...
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Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 426 pages
...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...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 364 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...
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Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 366 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...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 39

1842 - 452 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." It was a bold decision in a collegiate professor, who looked for his fame from his lectures on Greek,...
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The English Journal of Education, Volumes 8-9

1854 - 886 pages
...Neil. pp. 244. Walton and Maberly, London. " He that will write well in any language must follow the counsel of Aristotle — to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." This excellent axiom of old Roger Ascham being selected by Mr. Neil to stand as a modsl-motto in the...
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An Introduction to English Antiquities: Intended as a Companion to the ...

James Eccleston - 1847 - 504 pages
...direction " to the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England," (borrowed from Aristotle,) is most admirable : " To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." He was followed by Thomas Wilson in his " Art of Rhetorick" (1553), who complains bitterly of the number...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...extravagances which were opposed to the maxim of Roger Ascham, the most unpedantic of schoolmasters, "to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do." t The further intrinsic evidence that this comedy was a very early production is most satisfactory....
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...most bold in English ; when surely 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...every man understand him, and the judgment of wise meu allow him. Many English writers have not done so, but, using strange words, as Latin, French, and...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

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...
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