 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 pages
...correct model of English composition. " Whoever will write well in any tongue," he quaintly observes, " must follow this counsel of Aristotle, — to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do ; using such strange words as Latin, French, and Italian, do make all things dark and hard." This learned... | |
 | Hubert Marshall Skinner - 1892 - 620 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...Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think i more 8. M.— 3 as wise men do : as so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 512 pages
...and ordering of words if one wrote Latin. " He that will write well in any tongue," said Ascham, " 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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 446 pages
...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 allowr him. Many English writers have not done so, but using strange words, as Latin, French, and Italian,... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 444 pages
...must follow this council 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...allow him. Many English writers have not done so, hut using strange words as Latin, French, and Italian, do make all things dark and hard. Once I communed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1894 - 442 pages
...plea for the use of English by English writers. " He that will write well in any tongue," he says, " 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... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 448 pages
...introduction to Toxophilus ( 1 544) : — " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this council 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... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 456 pages
...introduction to Toxophilus (1544): — " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this council 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... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1906 - 448 pages
...introduction to Toxophilus (1544): — " He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this council of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men dd; and so should every man understand him and the judgment of wise men allow him. Many English writers... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 pages
...everything 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...as the common people do, to think as wise men do. 1 Honourable. PROSE WRITERS OF THE RENAISSANCE. Ill The book takes the form of a dialogue between Toxophilus... | |
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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. 
