 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 Study of the Types of Literature - Page 340by Mabel Irene Rich - 1921 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; 2 and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 'Some books also may be... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...CCLXL All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich. — Lavatcr. CCLXIL Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. CCLXIIL... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...observation. Read, — not to contradict and refute, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, — but to weigh and consider. Some...digested: that is, some books are to be read only iu parts ; others to be read — but not curiously ; and some few, to be read wholly, and with diligence... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...to be a distinction. A woman might, in this way, be very learned without any one's finding it out. ' 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.' It would have been well if Bacon had added... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...use them. Read not to contradict or confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...wise men use them — for they teach not their own use ; that is a wisdom beyond and above them, half won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute,...discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are only to be tasted, that is, read but in parts, and not curiously; and some few to be read thoroughly... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use, but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be... | |
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