Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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. "
The Young Lady's Reader - Page 128
by Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 458 pages
Full view - About this book

The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...curioufly •, and fome few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some Eookf alfomay be read by Deputy, and Extracts made of them by others : But that would be only in the lefs important Arguments, and the meaner fort of Boc^t, elfe diftilled Booly are like common d Milled...
Full view - About this book

The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - 1801 - 272 pages
...some few to be chewed and digested ; that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others io be read , but not curiously ; and some few to be read...deputy , and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments , and the meaner sort of books ; elss distilled books...
Full view - About this book

The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...tasted , others to be swallowed, and some few tobe chewed and digested? that is , some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but not curiously...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 books...
Full view - About this book

Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some bookes are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but not curiously...read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some bookes also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in...
Full view - About this book

Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...tasted-, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some bookes are to be read only in parts ; others to be read but not curiously...read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some bookes als6 may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in...
Full view - About this book

Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...read but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some bookes also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others : but that would be, onely in the lesse important arguments, and the meane sort of bookes; else distilled bookes, are like...
Full view - About this book

Elements of Moral Science, Volume 1

James Beattie - 1807 - 444 pages
...deserve to be studied in this accurate manner. For, as Bacon well observes, * some books are to be read only in parts ; others ' to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to * be read wholly, with diligence and attention.' There is much good sense in the following aphorism of the same great...
Full view - About this book

The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...tasted, others to be swal:iowed, 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...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books...
Full view - About this book

A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors

Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...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;...like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man ; and therefore if a man write little,...
Full view - About this book

Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 6

James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pages
..." few to be chewed and digested?" that is, as the noble author explains it, " That some are to be " read only in parts; others to be read, but not " curiously; and some few to be read wholly " with deligence and attention?" a rule, which, if duly attended to, would greatly promote the advancement...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF