 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...wise men learn by observation. Read not to contradict and refute, not to believe and take for granted, 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | Education - 1855 - 396 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 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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 588 pages
...them: for they tench not their own use : but that is а wisdom without them and above them, won bv observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor...chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be rend only in parts : others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 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 is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First,—Propose... | |
 | Robert Potts - Scholarships - 1855 - 588 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 is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.—Bacon. 106. Let the course of thy studies be as a journey ought to be. First,—Propose... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 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...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 - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...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 wholly, and with diligence... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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...digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ;3 and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence... | |
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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... 
