 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...by experience'. Crafty men' . . contemn studies'; simple men' . . admire', and wise men' . . use', them'; for they teach not their own use', but that...Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe or take for granted'; nor to find matter merely for conversation'; but to weigh and consider'. Some... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use ; but that...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... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that...them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to conliadict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, or to find talk and discourse, but to... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that...without them, and above them, won by observation. ^Iratl not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use : but that...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use : but that...Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for granted; norto find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that...to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are lobe read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use ; but that...talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some i You ask too much in order to obtain a moderate boon. The precept is exemplified in the following... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...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 are not to be read... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...be profitable, must be something more than a mere " beggarly day-dreaming." " Read," says Bacon, " not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...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 are not to be read... | |
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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... 
