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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... "
Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860 - Page 21
by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...contemn 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,...Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, bat to weigh and consider. Some books are to...
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The Fourth Reader, Or Exercises in Reading and Speaking Designed for the ...

Salem Town - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...contemn studies ; simple men admire, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their cwn use ; but there is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to beliene or take far granted ; nor to find matter merely for conversation ; but to weigh and consider....
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The Illustrated London Reading Book

English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...contemn 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. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ; not to find talk and discourse,...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...contemn 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,...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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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...contemn 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,...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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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...contemn 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,...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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above Ihem, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute,...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 bo read only in...
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Social and Political Morality

William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...a habit before giving it up, but find out its ordinary tendency, and act accord I vn. READING. * " Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." — BACON. " Bring -with thee the books."...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...as dictators of what you are to think and believe. — T. Edwards. READING, HOW TO IMPROVE BY. — Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...contemn 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. Bead not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse;...
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