| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 588 pages
...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and without diligence and attention. Some books, also, may In; read by deputy, and extracts made of them... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...as dictators of what you are to think and believe. — T. Edwards. READING, HOW TO IMPROVE BY. — Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. READING OF CHILDREN. — What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to bo read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts mode of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort... | |
| Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some works 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." — LOED BACON. § 1. NOTWITHSTANDING the multiplicity of subjects occu- signs of the pying the public... | |
| Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - 1853 - 474 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some works 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." — LOBD BACON. § 1. NOTWITHSTANDING the multiplicity of subjects occu- signs of the pying the public... | |
| 1854 - 862 pages
...studies, simple men admire, and wise men use thenr; for they teach not their own use; but that '.here is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Bacon. In a letter received this week from an eminent scientific man and teacher, occurs this expression... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...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...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, 01 extracts of them may be made by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 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...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and withtwrt diligence and attention. Some books, also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them... | |
| 1855 - 396 pages
...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, other to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Seme books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be only... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...equally serious study. " Some books," says Lord Bacon, "are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly and with diligence and attention." The character of the book, then, must determine our mode of reading it, and this is consequently the... | |
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