 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...wise men may not inappropriately be called to our aid, to conclude these few remarks. Lord Bacon says, "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." And George Withers : " For many books I caro... | |
 | 1903 - 664 pages
...which does not perceptibly differ from a passage in one of Bacon's 'Essays.' The philosopher wrote: "Some books are to be read only in parts ; others...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." I am not sufficiently familiar with cryptograms to point out where this pregnant suggestion occurs... | |
 | 1903 - 664 pages
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 | 1958 - 628 pages
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 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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 should be only... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 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...be read 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... | |
 | 1850 - 230 pages
...possess one, I do not deny, inasmuch as " some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; . that is, some...to 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... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...treatment of consumption in our next. BOOKS. 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. — Bacon. PLEASURE is like the delicate flower, whose odour, if you inhale too much of it, loses all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...J fSome books ire to ¥e tastedj "others to iiTswallowed, amTsome few to Ъе chewed and digested V port none, other than the general déficience, that...much of them is verity, and how much vanity. The and_wi(h diligence and attention. Some books also птцу be read by deputy, and extracta made of... | |
 | 1997 - 342 pages
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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... 
