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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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Bookmen on Books: A Collection of Choice Extracts

1907 - 156 pages
...laden with treasures for every mental want, and precepts for every duty. * * * Roger Ascham. — 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...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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...as the common people do, to think as wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgement of wise men allow him. Many English writers...
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Roger Ascham: sein stil und seine beziehung zur antike. Ein beitrag zur ...

Albert Hettler - 1915 - 108 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 allow him. Many English writers have not done so, but using strange words, as Latin, French and Italian,...
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College and the Future: Essays for the Undergraduate on Problems of ...

Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 pages
...idols of the Theatre, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies...
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Essentials of English Speech and Literature: An Outline of the Origin and ...

Frank H. Vizetelly - 1915 - 432 pages
...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...
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Harper's Magazine, Volume 130

Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1915 - 1064 pages
...pithily when he wrote in his Toxophilus that "he that will write well in any tongue must follow the counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as the wise men do." Language can be made in the library, no doubt, and in the laboratory also, but it...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...idols of the Theatre, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies...
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Essays on English

Brander Matthews - 1921 - 306 pages
...pithily when he wrote in his 'Toxophilus' that "he that will write well in any tongue must follow the counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as the wise men do." IV LANGUAGE can be made in the library no doubt, and in the laboratory also, but...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...idols of the Theater, which is to say, of the Lecture-room, or master by whose words we swear. "He that will write well in any tongue must follow this...counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people speak, but think as wise men think." From disregard of such counsel, many of our academic fallacies...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 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...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...
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