 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...every thing in a manner so meanly, both for the matter and handling, that no man can do worse. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, and think as wise men do." SIR THOMAS MALORY. From the HISTORY OF KING ARTHUR and the KNIGHTS OF THE... | |
 | Ward, Lock and co, ltd - 1884 - 968 pages
...pouring in. lioger Ascham, the tutor of Queen Elizabeth, recommends (1545) him who would write well "to speak as the common people do. to think as wise men do" ; aud W. 1'uttenham (1589), perceiving how the purity of the language was in danger of becoming overlaid... | |
 | Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1885 - 200 pages
...pouring in. Roger Ascham, the tutor of Queen Elizabeth, recommends (1545) him who would write well " to speak as the common people do. to think as wise men do " ; and W. Puttenham (1589), perceiving how the purity of the language was in danger of becoming overlaid... | |
 | 1886 - 548 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...common people do, to think as wise men do, as so should ever}' man understand him and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers have not done... | |
 | Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant - 1886 - 670 pages
...patriot, "I have written this Englishe matter in the Englishe tongue, for Englishe men." He resolves to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do; also to keep clear of strange Latin, French, and Italian words. Ascham's Northern birth is attested... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 478 pages
...have lived long on the alms-basket of words ; " thus eversing 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-fight... | |
 | 1888 - 614 pages
...that no man can do worse,' and at the same time recommends 'him that will write well in any tongue, to follow this counsel of . Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men ilo.' ' I have written this English matter,' he goes on to say, ' in the English tongue for Englishmen.'... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1889 - 354 pages
...vigorous English. " He that will write well in any tongue," said he, " must follow this counsel — to speak as the common people do — to think as wise men do." Our teachers of rhetoric could hardly say a better thing to-day. The subject of Archery was an important... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1889 - 352 pages
...vigorous English. "He that will write well in any tongue," said he, " must follow this counsel — to speak as the common people do — to think as wise men do." Our teachers of rhetoric could hardly say a better thing to-day. The subject of Archery was an important... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1910 - 350 pages
...homely, vigorous English. "He that will write well in any tongue," said he, "must follow this counselto speak as the common people do — to think as wise men do." Our teachers of rhetoric could hardly say a better thing to-day. The subject of Archery was an important... | |
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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. 
