 | sir Edward Strachey (3rd bart.) - 1874 - 508 pages
...of that date, seems to me at least to claim a more complete discussion than it has yet received. ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties,' says Bacon. And he says, requires the word to indicate tho people of Israel : and he explains it —... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...deservedly deluded. Again, men mix knowledge with their own particular meditations, conceits, and doctrines. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may bo soonest believed, and not casiliest examined. It is true that in compendious treatises for practice... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgement. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 9. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...musician, that held the soul was but a harmony, saith pleasantly, " Hie ab arte sua non recessit," etc. But of these conceits Aristotle speaketh seriously...faithful, in a sort, as may be soonest believed, and most easiliest examined. It is true, that in compendious treatises for practice, that form is not to... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...suspension of the judgment, is an error in the conduct of the understanding." " In. contemplation, if a man begin with certainties he shall end in doubts, but...to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Well said and profoundly true. This is a celebrated and often-cited passage ; an admitted principle... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two waya of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients : the...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. knowledge, winch is for the most part magistral and peremptory, »nd not ingenuous and faithful ; in... | |
 | F. C. Blyth - 1881 - 402 pages
...and prayed over, and is often only a preliminary step to an earnest and abiding faith.2 Bacon says, " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."3 It is true in many cases, as Voltaire observes, that " doubt is the beginning of knowledge."4... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pages
...is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of jndgment. ... If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral aud peremptory, and not ingenuous aud... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...sincerely, with more or less asseveration, as they stand in a man's own judgment proved more or less. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Other errors there are in the scope that men propound to themselves, whereunto they bend their endeavours... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...error is an impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgement. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 9. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
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... 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. 
