 | 1872 - Страниц: 368
...Crabbe : Tlie Borough, Letter xxiv. : Schools. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy,... | |
 | Jesse Ames Spencer - 1873 - Страниц: 312
...COUESE or ENGLISH BEADING. PART II. WHICH VARIOUS COURSES OF READING ARE PROPOSED AND CHARACTERIZED. Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. FRANCIS BACON. CHAPTER L ENCOURAGEMENTS TO STUDY AND HEADING. I SHOULD now consider that I had given... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1873 - Страниц: 518
...Seven ! " For the benefit of my readers I give a further quotation from the "wide-browed Verulam " — "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...be read only in parts ; others to be read but not anxiously {ie, attentively); and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - Страниц: 310
...Read," says he, " not to contradict and dispute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...be read wholly and with diligence and attention." Among the "few to be read wholly" may certainly be included the select divines whose names adorn the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - Страниц: 266
...Studies] This formed the first Essay in the original edition of 15972 Disposition] Arrangement ; planning. that is, some books are to be read only in parts ;...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts 2 made of them by others ; but that would be 3 only in the less important arguments, and the meaner... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1874 - Страниц: 458
...Read' — not to contradict' and refute', not to believe' and take for granted', nor to find talk' and discourse' — but to weigh' and consider'. Some'...Some books also may be read by deputy', and extracts of them made by others'; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner' sort... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - Страниц: 474
...ni'de judgment — to give judgment = to make decisions. Other equivalents? granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...with diligence and attention. Some books also may lie read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important... | |
 | 1875 - Страниц: 780
...observation. Read, not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1875 - Страниц: 208
...transacting private business and corresponding with friends and acquaintances. — Quintilian. 151. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in part ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1876 - Страниц: 514
...spend too much time in studies, is sloth ; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make2 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would4 be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books... | |
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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... 
