 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.  Literary and professional works - Page 253by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...conversation'; 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 only glanced at'; others' . . are to be read', but not critically'; and some few' . . are to be read... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...and disgested : that is some bookes are to be read only in partes ; others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. 4i Histories make men wise, poets wittie, the mathematicks subtle, naturall philosophie deepe : morall... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are tobe tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only the lees important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else disiilled... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled... | |
 | 1835 - 736 pages
...others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read in some parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others." If this was judicious and useful advice, at a time when books were comparatively few — rari nantes... | |
 | 1835 - 740 pages
...1835. y PREFACE. LORD Bacon says— " Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read in some parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence,... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1836 - 468 pages
...body; for, as lord Bacon quaintly observes, '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 part, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence, and... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested ; that is, some books are to be read only...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. LORD BACON. HE that wants... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested ; that is, some books are to be read only...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. LORD BACON. HE that wants... | |
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