 | John Drinkwater - 2005 - 520 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 120 pages
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 | 陳榮吉 (英語) - 2002 - 275 pages
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 | B. McClure - 2005 - 632 pages
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 | Richard C. Smith - 2005 - 259 pages
...about reading in his essay "Of Studies". "Some books 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. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 412 pages
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 | Denise Gigante - 2008 - 272 pages
...to be Swallowed, and Some Few to be Chewed and Digested: That is, some Bookes are to be read onely in Parts; Others to be read but not Curiously; And...some Few to be read wholly, and with Diligence and Attention."8 The eighteenth-century editorial fashion for collecting and publishing "Beauties" was... | |
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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... 
