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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
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 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...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 43

Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1860 - 836 pages
...illustrious sage himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "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."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 43

1860 - 788 pages
...?яде himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "If aman will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 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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Annual report of health officer of the city of Sacramento. 1863

1863 - 190 pages
...Requires Careful Training It was Bacon who made the statement, "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." Today the modern trend and research makes this statement adaptable to public health as a science, especially...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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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Unitarian Principles Confirmed by Trinitarian Testimonies: Being Selections ...

John Wilson - 1864 - 524 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 shaM end in certainties. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning, book i. ; in Works, vol. i. p. 173....
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Sabbath Hours: a Series of Meditations on Gospel Themes

Rev. H. T. Howat - 1865 - 296 pages
...from darkness into light. ' In contemplation,' says Lord Bacon, ' if a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' Nay, is it not a blessed counterpoise to the scandalous work of Renan, that so many on the Continent,...
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Diamond Dust

Eliza Cook - 1865 - 216 pages
...woman always gives the tone to morals. 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 USE must have preceded an abuse. IP a man were to set out calling everything by its right name, he...
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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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. BACON. IN every question of conduct, where one side is doubtful, and the other side safe, we are bound...
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