 ... 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 parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 41872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books are like common distilled...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. • BACON. CHAP. X. ON SATIRICAL- WIT. — TRUST me, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - 1828 - 314 pages
...books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Heading makfeth a full man ; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man ; and, therefore,...the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; morals grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIII. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — Lord Bacon. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...almost lost their force of writing. — Shaftesbury. CCLXXXIH. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. — Lord Baam. CCLXXXIV. To judge rightly of our own worth, we should retire a little from the world,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...an exact man ; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he amfer little, he had need have a present wit ; and, if he...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Beam. The words in the eighth verse conferred with the same words in the twentieth, make it manifest.... | |
 | 1832 - 670 pages
...Some hooka also may be read by deputy, aud extracts made of them by others; but that would only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort...Histories make men wise : poets, witty : the mathematics, subtle : natural philosophy, deep: mornl, grave: logic and rhetoric, able to contend : ' Abeunt sludia... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...the meaner sort of books; else 'distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. 130 and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. LORD BACON. LESSON LXVIII. Speech of Logan. 1. In the spring of the year 1774, a robbery and murder... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and atter. tion. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts...moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores ;" nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but may i>« wrought... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...teach not their own use ; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. ^Iratl not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...writing an exact man ; and, therefore, if a man write little, he need have great memory : if he conter little, he had need have a present wit : and if he...doth not. Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematicks subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral, grave ; logick and rhetorick, able to contend... | |
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