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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... "
A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the ... - Page 449
by Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 644 pages
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...to believe, but to weigh and consider.0 U Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. That is, some...are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but cursorily; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. U Reading maketh a full...
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Grammatica elementare della lingua inglese: morfologia con temi, dialoghi ...

L. Piccoli Calvi - 2003 - 300 pages
...prefissi e suffissi, che si possono dividere:fishing-rod, un-necessary, hope-ful. Dictation OF STUDIES 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 would be only...
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英汉互译实践与技巧

许建平 - 2003 - 388 pages
...observation. Read not to contradict and con fute ; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talks and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by 2 坞英汉互译实践与技巧(...
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新编研究生综合英语教程: 学生用书

2003 - 248 pages
...Put the following passage into Chinese. 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...
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Clinical Experiences of 70 Years in Homoeopathy

S. P. Koppikar - 2003 - 178 pages
...says: Read neither to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books...that is, some books are to be read only in parts; the others to be read, but not curiously (carefully); and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence...
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Designing Usable Electronic Text: Ergonomic Aspects Of Human Information Usage

Andrew Dillon - 2004 - 224 pages
...the reading process at an appropriate level 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. Sir Francis Bacon, 1621 Introduction Taken in isolation, the empirical literature on reading from screens...
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language, 1936-1961: Teaching English in ...

Richard C. Smith - 2005 - 436 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...
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Taste: A Literary History

Denise Gigante - 2008 - 264 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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The English Reader: What Every Literate Person Needs to Know

Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 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 would be only...
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新编实用英汉翻译实例评析

2006 - 528 pages
...teach not their own use; but that there is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe...be read only in parts; others to be read, but not 且4 新编实用英汉翻译实例评析 curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence...
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