 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...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." And George Withers : " For many books I caro... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...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 be read only in... | |
 | 1849 - 612 pages
...We counsel our readers to buy and read this pamphlet, bearing in mind the aphorism of LOED BAcON, " Read not to contradict, nor to believe; but to weigh and consider." Mormonum Briefly Examined. T/se External Evidences of the Book of Mormon Examined. BY W. PALMES, 122... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...Essay, of Studie, is thus divided into sections or verses, and the rest are similarly segregated. "f s ; for the best swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only in parts,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, not 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 be read only in... | |
 | 1851 - 278 pages
...not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ; not 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 be read only in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 be read only in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...wrote thus : " Crafty men contemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation. Bead not to contradict, nor to believe, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others... | |
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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... 
