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... A Treasury of Table Talk - Página 48de Treasury - 1868 - 128 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...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... | |
| 1856 - 374 páginas
...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 - 1856 - 406 páginas
...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... | |
| William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 páginas
...use, that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Bead not to contradict, nor to believe, 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 man, conference a ready... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...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... | |
| John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 páginas
...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,...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, and with diligence and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...use : that is a wisdorr without them, and won by observation. Reac not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 páginas
...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... | |
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