 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 sidor
...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 - 1848 - 786 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 sidor
...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... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 sidor
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 sidor
...beautiful women, in the style of a Parliamentary report. In his old age he discussed treaties and tarifls in the most fervid and brilliant language of romance....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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... 
