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" So it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. "
The Oxford English prize essays - Page 36
by Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836
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Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works

Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...but after a while fair and even: so it is in contemplations : if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content...begin with .doubts, he shall end in certainties.' the same sagacity he examines va12 11G CHARACTER OF LORD BACON: rious other ' peccant humours' which have...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part...
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An Essay on the Rationale of Circumstantial Evidence: Illustrated by ...

William Wills - 1838 - 332 pages
...Bacon are most apposite in relation to this important subject : " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintiesf." It is indispensable to the very existence of society that the magistrate should found...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 22

1838 - 596 pages
...tins important subject - - It a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if hi- will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' 1l is indispensable to the very existence of society that the magistrate should found many of bis determinations...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...but, after a while, fair and even ; so it is in contemplation, if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. " Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...but after awhile fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but, if he will be content...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part...
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 1

432 pages
...another as long as we stly I DIAMOND DUST. IF a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. A TJSE must have preceded an abuse. SOME characters are like bubbles, so delicate as to be directed...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...even : so it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; hut if he will be. content to begin with doubts he shall end in eertainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for...
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