 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and contate, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh t fell man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore*, if a man write little,... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...himself defines his Essays as " certain brief notes, oet down rather significantly than curiously." with diligence and attention. Some books also may...others : but that would be only in the less important arguments,5 'nd the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules,- is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. CHARACTER. Ralph Waldo Emerson. I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pages
...use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar : they perfect nature, and are perfected...would be only in the less important arguments and the meanef sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled- waters, flashy things. Reading... | |
 | 1870 - 956 pages
...good advice as to reading. " Some books," he tells us, "are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man, and svriting an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pages
...read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 5. Reading' maketh a full man' ; conversation' a ready man'; and writing' an exact man': and therefore,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 458 pages
...arc to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, with diligence and attention. Some books, also, may...others ; but that would be only in the less important and meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled waters — flashy things."^)... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 pages
...read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 5. Reading' maketh a full man' ; conversation' a ready man' ; and writing' an exact man' : and therefore,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1873 - 614 pages
...teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Beading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man : and, therefore, if a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts 2 made of them by others ; but that would be 3 only in the less important arguments, and the meaner...things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man.4 And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great... | |
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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 parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some... 
