 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 páginas
...wise men learn by observation. Read not to contradict and refute, not to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted,...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 páginas
...except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire, and wise men use them; for they teach. not their own use ; but that...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... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 páginas
...wise men may not inappropriately be called to our aid, to conclude these few remarks. Lord Bacon says, "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe...and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." And George Withers : " For many books I caro... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 páginas
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use s second course, Chief nourieher in life's feast....do you mean I Macb. Still it cry'd, Sleep no more, Head not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 páginas
...be bounded in by experience, r Crafty men condemn studies: simple men admire them ; and wise men use earning, but it is not learning that breedeth any...man, that hath been or can be, hath, no question, in parts; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 páginas
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use, but that...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... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 páginas
...be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, 15 simple men admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh 20 and consider. Some books are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 páginas
...simple men admire them; and wise men use them : for they teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdon without them, and above them, won by observation....digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously1 ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 páginas
...they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use ; but that...Read, not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, bat to weigh and consider. Some books are to... | |
 | 582 páginas
...bounded in bv experience. " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them : for they teach not theiv own use, but that is a wisdom without them, and above...Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." —Bacon's Essays.... | |
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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; that is, some books are to... 
