 | Horae, Henry Holmes Joy - 1873 - 374 pages
...to leave them behind us, measuring our advance by keeping them in sight. In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Every obtaining of a desire hath a show of advancement, as motion in a circle hath a sign of progression.... | |
 | 1873 - 530 pages
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 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1874 - 504 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 aays, requires the word to indicate the people of Israel : and he explains it —... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
