| 1849 - 854 pages
...what we read, but what we digest, tha nourishes the mind. " It matters not," says an old writer, " of our independence,' and was inally adjusted by...Convention hat framed the Constitution. " It will be obse ac quaint thyself with a few authors, than to wander through many." The mind requires nourishing food.... | |
| Society of friends - 1856 - 236 pages
...what wo read, but what we digest, that nourishes the mind. " It matters not," says an old writer, " how many books thou hast, but how good : multitude...with a few authors, than to wander through many." The mind requires nourishing food. Trifling reading enfeebles it. Lord Bacon wisely says, " Read not to... | |
| Society of Friends - 1867 - 844 pages
...not what we read, but what we digest, that nourishes the miud. " It matters not," says an old writer, "how many books thou hast, but how good : multitude...with a few authors, than to wander through many." The mind requires nourishing food. Trifling reading enfeebles it. Lord Bacon wisely says, " Read not to... | |
| Vermont Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 720 pages
...but only a few, and those "very pithy and pertinent," as Coke says was the practice of old; for "a multitude of books do rather burden than instruct, and it is far better to acquaint thyself thoroughly with a few authors than to wander through many." But he paid little... | |
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 844 pages
...complains, in the words of Solomon, that of writing of books there is no end. He however wrote, aiid not sparingly. He also says, quoting Seneca, •"...thoroughly to acquaint thyself with a few authors, <hau to wander through many." 65" The ancient order of argument," he says, "was altered, formerly the... | |
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