| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...tiiul talk ami bat to weigh and consider. Some bm>b •re to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curkxuly ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be... | |
| English essays - 1826 - 696 pages
...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...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. ELEGIAC TRIBUTE TU THE v I.MI.KY ОГ TB* l, n B Mr. MATTHEW BROUGHAM. Farewell ! my... | |
| Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...? Digested, concocted in the stomach, to range methodically. gested ; that is, some books are to he read only in parts '• others to be read, but not...with diligence and attention. Some books also may be rend by deputy, and extracts mode of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. CCLXIIL true art of being agreeable, is to appear we" •« . . • pleased with all... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. ccLxm. pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them,... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - Christian education - 1829 - 738 pages
...different ways : Lord Bacon justly remarks, ' Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read only in parts, others to be read, but not cursorily, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.' It has been found useful... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pages
...Id. Some books are to be tasted, others to be twtKvnt, and some few to be chewed and digested ; tna is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously , and some few in be read wholly, with attention. Bacon. While the fierce monk does at his trial stand, He cheua revenge,... | |
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