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 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...charge that makes the feast." — Isaac Walton. LIX. Soaks. — Read not to contradict and confute, but to weigh and consider. Some books 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... | |
 | 1839 - 656 pages
...the fire, Which pierced them «till with its triumphal ipirc." READ not to contradict and confute, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to i he swallowed, and some few to be digested ; that i», some books are to be read only in parís... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...studies, simple men 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....talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some i You ask too much in order to obtain a moderate boon. The precept is exemplified in the following... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 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... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 532 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." It might be added, many are not to be read... | |
 | 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... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...studies, simple men 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....some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiousry ; and some few to be read... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above tbem, ed in himself with death : Then fell he too, t' embrace...the killing siçht ; and now, Almost made stone, beg books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read... | |
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