 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty, and studies themselves do give forth directions too...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books... | |
 | Simon Kerl - English language - 1861 - 372 pages
...between the period and the semicolon. Ex.—" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some...curiously ; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence."—Bacon. Exercises.—A wicked man, in his iniquitous plans, either fails or succeeds if... | |
 | sir Matthew Digby Wyatt - 1861 - 202 pages
...to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some hooks are to be read only in parts ; others to be read,...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." — Idem. " In reading, we hold converse with the wise ; in the business of life, generally with the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...are brought together into one view, and their consultation facilitated. others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." This must be understood, from the title and whole strain of the essay, to be addressed to students—... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1863 - 898 pages
...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make1 judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar ; they perfect nature, and are perfected...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts mado of them by others ; but that would* be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...should be carefully remembered. He says, '' Read not to believe, and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books...be read wholly and with diligence and attention." "Books," says Cowper, "are not seldom talismans and spells," often indeed to the ignorant and superstitious,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1863 - 470 pages
...swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested that is some books are to be read only in parts others t} be read but not curiously and some few to be read...extracts made of them by others but that would be only in 'he less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some booki are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some...not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and wifli diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, ami extracts made of them by... | |
 | Truman Rickard - English language - 1863 - 152 pages
...Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: tihat is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others...wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books 25 also, may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1864 - 200 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
