 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1844 - 142 pages
...not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Head — not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts of them made by others; but that should be only... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 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 only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiousry ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books, also, may... | |
 | Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1844 - 508 pages
...GREAT CAUSE of all things !" SIR H. DAVY. " Some Books are to be tasted^others to be swallowed — and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...read wholly, and with diligence and attention."— LOED BACON'S ESSATS. ANXIOUS that the " COURTEOUS HEADER"* should derive from this work all the information... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 856 pages
...upon stndies, puts the matter clearly: '•SomQ 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 bo read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." It is... | |
 | Bible - 1844 - 132 pages
...meditation. Some books, says Lord Bacon, are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not with much curiosity, and some few to be read wholly, with diligence, attention and profound thought.... | |
 | 1844 - 1128 pages
...THE CHOICE OF BOOKS. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be - *td and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be '< but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and •blion. Some books... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...use : that is a wisdom without them, and won hy observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted ; others to be swallowed, — and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted ; others to be swallowed, — and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 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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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... 
