.... Reading maketh a "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 books also 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. The American Educational Series. THE LITERARY READER: TYPICAL SELECTIONS FROM SOME OF THE BEST BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, + FROM SHAKESPEARE TO THE presenT TIME, Chronologically Arranged; WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SKETCHES, NEW YORK AND CHICAGO: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY |