| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. IBID. READING raaketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore,... | |
| Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...swallowed; and some few are to be chewed digested i that is, some books are to be read only in part ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 4. Some books also may be read by deputy, and eXtrtvcts made of them by others ; but that should be... | |
| David Hoffman - Law - 1817 - 398 pages
...body; for, as lord Bacon quaintly observes, "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 part, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others: but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be only in the -less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled... | |
| Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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...with diligence and attention. Some books also may he read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important... | |
| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled... | |
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