 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...them; foi they teach not their own use : that is a wisdorr without them, and won by observation. Reac / to be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready... | |
 | John Guy (Schoolmaster.) - 1858 - 248 pages
...ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men. Read not to contradict and refute, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be digested; that is, some books are to be read only in part; others... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 pages
...believe, but to weift and consider. Some books are to be lasted others to be swallowed, and some few to bt chewed and digested. Reading maketh a full man, conference...man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man wriie litlle, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, have a present wit ; and if lie... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...not to contradict or 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 - 1897 - 950 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...swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Reading maketli a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore if a man write... | |
 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 530 pages
...to contradict xxxvand 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 are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested ; that is, some books are to be read only... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 - 1861 - 422 pages
...thus. " Crafty men eontemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them ; for they teaeh not their own use : that is a wisdom without them, and won by observation . Read not to eontradiet, nor to belie ve, but to weigh and eonsider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,... | |
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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... 
