 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 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... | |
 | 1854 - 862 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. — Bacon. In a letter received this week from an eminent scientific man and teacher, occurs this expression... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...others to be swaltowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be rend only in parts : others to be read, but not curiously...only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books ; else, distilled books are, like common distilled waters, 152 ]53 fleshy things. Reading... | |
 | 1855 - 396 pages
...discourse, but 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 are to be...be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Seme books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be only... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 472 pages
...study. " Some books," says Lord Bacon, "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." The character of the book, then, must determine our mode of reading it, and this is consequently the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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...only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...that would be only in the less important arguments 1 This formed the first essay in the earliest edition of the •work. • and the meaner sort of books... | |
 | 1856 - 374 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 The true art of being agreeable, is to appear well pleased with all the company,... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1857 - 470 pages
...AKHIIAM, CONCISE STYLE. Studies.—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 the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books else distilled books are like common distilled waters flashy things. Reading ranfcclh... | |
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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. 
