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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 152
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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 be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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 bo read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. " 1f Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but cursorily, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence...
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Michigan Journal of Education and Teachers' Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...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 be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...take for granted, 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 be read only in part ; others to be read, but not curiously : and some few to be read wholly, and with...
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but 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...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an Account of the Aids Afforded to Poor Students, the ...

Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...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 be read only in part; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence...
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Reading lessons, ed. by E. Hughes, Book 1

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 books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence...
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Liber Cantabrigiensis, an account of the aids afforded to poor students, the ...

Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...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 be read only in part; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Great Britain - 1856 - 600 pages
...The advice of Lord Bacon is wholesome — " 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 parts, ft otters to bo read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with...
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