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" 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. Some... "
The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ... - Página 53
editado por - 1919 - 679 páginas
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 páginas
...they teachnot their own use; butthatis a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Head not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and...deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studio in mores; nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by...
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Advanced Reading Book, Literary and Scientific

1859 - 436 páginas
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 páginas
...by study ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they he hounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial...
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Advanced Reading Book: Literary and Scientific

Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 páginas
...and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and in the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are...moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Studies exercise influence upon the icorals ; nay, there is no stand or impediment in the wit, but...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 páginas
...by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of hooks ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters,...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. TIIE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Reading makcth 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. Elteratl. ATTAINMENTS OF LINGUISTS. TAKING the very highest estimate which has been...
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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons ...

George Payn Quackenbos - 1861 - 468 páginas
...that is some books are to be read only in parts others to be read but not curiously and some few to ba read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some...little he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth not.—BACON. NERVOUS STYLE. On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings.—In the course of...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - 1861 - 416 páginas
...attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner...have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. BACON. THE PERFECT ORATOR. Imagine to yourselves a Demosthenes, addressing the most illustrious assembly...
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The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 páginas
...Attentively. and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy1 things. Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready...Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend : "Abeunt studia...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience—for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need...have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. THE END OF KNOWLEDGE. It is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial...
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