 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 sider
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe 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 might be added, many... | |
 | 1855 - 602 sider
...they teach not their own use : but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1844 - 142 sider
...not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Head — not to contradict and confute, nor to believe 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 sider
...they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | London univ - 1846 - 326 sider
...they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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 man... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 sider
...much out of his reputation. . . . The Fiftieth is entitled " Of Studies ;" here is part of it :— Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 sider
...teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, and won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sider
...they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. fear nor wish my fate, But boldly say each night,...clouds hide them ; I have liv'd to-day. * Johnson's ' be tasted, others to be swallowed, and юте few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 sider
...they teach. not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 sider
...wise men may not inappropriately be called to our aid, to conclude these few remarks. Lord Bacon says, "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." And George Withers : "... | |
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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... 
