 | Museum and English journal of education - 1863 - 576 pages
...address the greatest number with effect must exert the widest influence ; and Roger Ascham tells us, " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." WM. RTJSHTON, MA IX. EDUCATION AND MANNERS IN AMERICA.* DEEPLY interesting as is Mr. Anthony Trollope's... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 pages
...all the Gentlemen and Yeomen of England, he recommends to him that would write well in any tongue the counsel of Aristotle, — "To speak as the -common people do, to think as wise men do." From this we may perceive that Ascham had a true feeling of the regard due to the great fountain-head... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1864 - 382 pages
...man that is most ready to talk, is not most able to write. He that will write well in any tongue,1 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. Many English writers... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...is most ready to talk is not most able to write. He that will write well in any tongue, must f'll'iw this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common...wise men do: as so should every man understand him, indthe judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers have not done so, but, using strange words,... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1865 - 348 pages
...The Engliah Works of Roger Aacham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth. A new edition. "He that will writ« well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, To speak aa the common people do, to think as wise men do."— Тохоршшз. London : Printed for White,... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1866 - 178 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...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. Many English writers... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 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.... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1871 - 332 pages
...by an old rule, as Roger Ascham, almost our first writer of good English prose, has quoted it, " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this...understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him." The educated English writer cannot, I think, be too homely in his use of native words and idioms, but... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 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...allow him. Many English writers have not done so, hut, using strançe words, as Latin, French, and Italian, do make all things dark and hard. Once I... | |
 | Amos Bronson Alcott - 1872 - 300 pages
...Ascham lays down this sensible rule : " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this advice of Aristotle : ' to speak as the common people do, to think as ioise men do, and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men about him.' " George... | |
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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. 
