 | 1856 - 374 páginas
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...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.' It would have been well if Bacon had added... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...them; foi they teach not their own use : that is a wisdorr without them, and won by observation. Reac / to be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 páginas
...ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Read not to contradict and refute, 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 part; others... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 páginas
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 páginas
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 páginas
...will give very short specimens of Bacon's two styles. In 1597, he wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use...swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketli a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 páginas
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 530 páginas
...to contradict xxxvand 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 are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read 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... 
