 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and arc perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and without diligence and attention. Some books, also, may In; read by deputy, and extracts made of them... | |
 | 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...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. READING OF CHILDREN. — What blockheads are those wise persons, who think it necessary... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to bo read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts mode of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some works are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested — that is, some books are to be read only...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." — LOED BACON. § 1. NOTWITHSTANDING the multiplicity of subjects occu- signs of the pying the public... | |
 | Micaiah Hill, Caroline Frances Cornwallis - Juvenile delinquency - 1853 - 474 pages
...but to weigh and consider. Some works are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested — that is, some books are to be read only...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." — LOBD BACON. § 1. NOTWITHSTANDING the multiplicity of subjects occu- signs of the pying the public... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 862 pages
...studies, simple men admire, and wise men use thenr; for they teach not their own use; but that '.here is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation....be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Bacon. In a letter received this week from an eminent scientific man and teacher, occurs this expression... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...swallowed, and some few' to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in part ; others to be read, but not curiously : and some few...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, 01 extracts of them may be made by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...use them too much for ornament is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and withtwrt diligence and attention. Some books, also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, other to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Seme books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be only... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...equally serious study. " Some books," says Lord Bacon, "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." The character of the book, then, must determine our mode of reading it, and this is consequently the... | |
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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... 
