 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...  The Christian's Penny Magazine - Page 561832Full view - About this book
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.— Quintilian. 140. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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 to be read wholly... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.— Quintilian. 140. Bead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe 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 to be read wholly... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 pages
...transacting private business, and corresponding with friends and acquaintance.—Quintilian. 140. Head not to contradict and confute, nor to believe 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 to be read wholly... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 pages
...studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation....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 books arc to be read only... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation....some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; 2 and some few to be read... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...his adherence is not servile and questionless. His injunctions in Of Studies (version of 1625) are: 'Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...perfect Nature, and are perfected by Experience... they teach not their own use, but that [? there] is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict nor to believe, but to weigh and consider...67 Of Studies' first part as said is unchanged in 1612... | |
 | Ula C. Manzo, Anthony V. Manzo - Business & Economics - 1993 - 662 pages
...scholar. . . . Read 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. . . . Reading maketh a full person; conference... | |
 | Robert Barrass - Business & Economics - 1995 - 212 pages
...expressed themselves clearly and simply. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) in Of Studies, an essay, wrote: Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...to weigh and consider. . . . some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...the high ideals which places the book among those of the better class of Higher Thought literature. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly... | |
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