 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 parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some books...  A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed - Page 114edited by - 1916 - 889 pagesFull view - About this book
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. CHARACTER. Ralph Waldo Emertvn. I have read that those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh t fell man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore*, if a... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...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...the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of 1 A quotation from a series of poems under the name of Orpheus, but which are believed to be, for the... | |
 | Almanacs - 1870 - 956 pages
...reading. " Some books," he tells us, "are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man, and svriting an exact man ; and therefore, if a... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - Elocution - 1870 - 396 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 pages
...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...would be only in the less important arguments and the meanef sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled- waters, flashy things. Reading... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1871 - 468 pages
...onscionable.—HARKHAM. CONCISE STYLE. Studies.—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...books are like common distilled waters flashy things. Reading maketh a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man and therefore if a man write... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man : and therefore, if a man... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - English language - 1872 - 364 pages
...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...are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a... | |
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