| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 sayfa
...use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read 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... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sayfa
...use: that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Read 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 u full man, conference a ready... | |
| John Charles Wright - 1882 - 188 sayfa
...exact man. It was a lodge of ample size, but strange of structure and device. Read not to contradict, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Ex. 44. — Work the following exercise same... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1900 - 374 sayfa
...to contradict and confute ; - . J »— - S~ IT* nor to believe and take for granted; nor to ( talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. \ Some books are to be tasted, others to be and some few to be chewed, and digested y that is, some books are to be read only in parts ;... | |
| William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 sayfa
...are the brightest ornaments of the mind of man. Bacon is right, as he generally is, when he bids us read, not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider. Yes, let us read to weigh and to consider.... | |
| David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 462 sayfa
...are the brightest ornaments of the mind of man. Bacon is right, as he generally is, when he bids us read, not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider. Yes, let us read to weigh and to consider.... | |
| Mary Kathleen Lyttelton - 1901 - 216 sayfa
...so long as we have good health and a good library, it can hardly be dull.' Bacon says that we should read ' not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk or discourse, but to weigh and consider.' Which is excellent advice, especially for... | |
| W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 sayfa
...are the brightest ornaments of the mind of man. Bacon is right, as he generally is, when he bids us read, not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider. Yes, let us read to weigh and to consider.... | |
| 1902 - 132 sayfa
...are the brightest ornaments of the mind of man. Bacon is right, as he generally is, when he bids us read not to contradict and refute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and to consider. Yes, let us read to weigh and to consider.... | |
| 1903 - 828 sayfa
...ability. . . . 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" If a man attempts to feed upon this last... | |
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