 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...a habit before giving it up, but find out its ordinary tendency, and act accord I vn. READING. * " 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." — BACON. " Bring -with thee the books."... | |
 | 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...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 be read only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use...without them, and above them, won by observation. Bead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, nnd wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above Ihem, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted,... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus: — Crafty men condemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn peration, to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
 | 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....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 be read only in... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use...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 books arc to be read only... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...them: for they tench not their own use : but that is а wisdom without them and above them, won bv observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swaltowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be rend only in... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.— Quintilian. 140. 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; that is, some books are to be read only in... | |
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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... 
