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...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected...would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...

...admire them, and wise men use them : for they teach not what is their own use, but what is wis-~ dom without them, and above them, won by observation....deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should only be in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books...

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...observation. Read not to contradict and confute ; nor to believe and take for grant, ed ; nor to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. Some books...would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...

...them too much for ornament, is affectation ; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected...would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...

...directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn stndies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for...with diligence and attention. Some books also may he read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important...

...perfected by experience ; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by duty ; and studies themselves do give forth directions too...deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that should be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sorts of books ; else distilled books...

...talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some...would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books: else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...

...use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected...would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books ; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading...