 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...  Bacon's Essays - Page 478by Francis Bacon - 1874 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 902 pages
...few to In chewed and digrfted." It would hare been well if Bacon had added some hints OB to the medr of study : how books, are to be chewed, and swallowed, and digested. For, bvsidee inattentive readers, who measure their proficiency by the pages they have gone over, it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...opportunity will probably never recur. ' Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some feio to be chewed and digested.' It would have been well...swallowed, and digested. For, besides inattentive readers, who measure their proficiency by the pages they have gone over, it is quite possible, and not uncommon,... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...observation. Bead 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 Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 pages
...observation. 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, ;uid some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English language - 1867 - 380 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...observation. 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 be read only in... | |
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