 | English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 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..., some books are to be read only in parts ; others io be read , but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...but to weigh and consider^,, Some books are to be tasted , others to be swallowed, and some few tobe chewed and digested? that is , some books are to be...with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that should be only in the less important... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some bookes are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but...read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some bookes also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some bookes are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but...read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some bookes also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in... | |
 | James Beattie - Ethics - 1807 - 444 pages
...Latin, and English, that deserve to be studied in this accurate manner. For, as Bacon well observes, * some books are to be read only in parts ; others '...not curiously ; and some few to * be read wholly, with diligence and attention.' There is much good sense in the following aphorism of the same great... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...discourse, but.to weigh and ,, consider. ' ; Some'.books are to'be tasted, others to be swal:iowed, and some few to be chewed and digested;; that is, some...with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigji and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others...with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 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...curiously; and some few to be read wholly ; and with r diligenc.e and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 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...with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. IBID. READING raaketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,... | |
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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... 
