 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some booki are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and wifli diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, ami extracts made of them by... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: tihat is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others...wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books 25 also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1864 - 200 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...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 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...only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; 2 and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by... | |
 | Samuel Chew - 1864 - 168 pages
...respect the wise prescript of Bacon, that, " Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some...read wholly, and with diligence and attention.''! * Tu memineris sui cujusque generis auctores diligenter eligere aiunt enim, Multum legendum esse, non... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1865 - 154 pages
...contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh 20 and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others...wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books 25 also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that, would be only in the... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 pages
...not suffice for this. The student's reading must be conducted in accordance with Bacon's advice ; ' some books are to be read only in parts, others to...be read wholly and with diligence and attention.' The works of the chief authors must be studied 'with diligence and attention ;' and, if possible, must... | |
 | John Tulloch - 1866 - 308 pages
...and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to bo tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read only in parts; others to be read, but not cursorily; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1867 - 380 pages
...Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. It is still read with pleasure : the style is pure and flowing ; the classical quotations and allusions... | |
 | Robert Steel (D.D.) - 1867 - 266 pages
...select in his choice. " Some books are to be tasted," said Lord Bacon, " others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." Those that have little time need to be specially select. And so must those who have one great object... | |
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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... 
