 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...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 be...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. ccLxm. pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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 be...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. — Lord Bacon. CCLXIIL true art of being agreeable, is to appear we" •« . . • pleased with all... | |
 | Rev. Charles BRIDGES - 1830 - 696 pages
...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 be...Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts of them made by others. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man ; and writing an exact man... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...weigh and consider. 4. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few •:£.> be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be...only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 be...some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and atter. tion. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...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 be...only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...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 be...extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are tobe tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be...extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only the lees important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else disiilled books are, like common distilled... | |
 | 1835 - 736 pages
...others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read in some parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some...read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others." If this was judicious and useful advice, at a time when books were comparatively few — rari nantes... | |
 | David Hoffman - 1836 - 468 pages
...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...only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books.' * But whilst the student is judicious in his selection, there is another consideration... | |
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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 parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. 
