 Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...  Bacon's Essays - Page 478by Francis Bacon - 1874 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...use them. Read not to contradict or confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...observation. Bead not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 530 pages
...— " read not to contradict xxxvand confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 904 pages
...it out. "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...Bacon had added some hints as to the mode of study : hou> books are t<> be chewed, and swallowed, and digested. For, besides inattentive, readers, who... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1863 - 898 pages
...it out. "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to helicte and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some jfcic to be chewed and digested." It would have been well if Bacon had added... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...should be carefully remembered. He says, '' Read not to believe, and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
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