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CATHCART'S LITERARY READER. TE

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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. may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others. full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he reads little, he had need have much running, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

BACON'S ESSAYS.

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