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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works - Page 293
by Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857
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The Oxford English Prize Essays: A New Edition Brought Down to the ..., Volume 5

1836 - 354 pages
...diffusive reader freed from the wholesome constraint of 0 " The ways of contemplation are not unlike the ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients...in the entrance, but after a while fair and even." Bacon, Advancement of Learning. such a moral discipline; but the system which he pursues offers positive...
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Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ...

Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...and haste to assertion without due suspension of judgment. ' For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of -action, commonly spoken...impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the extreme, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplations : if a man will begin with certainties,...
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Religio medici. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 1-4

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...commonly spoken of by the ancients; of which the one was a plain and smooth way in the beginning, but in the end impassable ; — the other rough and troublesome...entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplations : — if a man will begin in certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he be content...
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Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3

Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 pages
...the judgment, is an error in the conduct of the understanding. For the two ways of contemplation, are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients; of which the one was a plain and smooth way in the beginning, but in the end impassable ; — the other...
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The Oxford English prize essays, Volume 5

Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836 - 350 pages
...diffusive reader freed from the wholesome constraint of 0 " The ways of contemplation are not unlike the ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients;...in the entrance, but after a while fair and even." Bacon, Advancement of Learning, such a moral discipline ; but the system which he pursues offers positive...
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The Effects of a National Taste for General and Diffusive Reading: A Prize ...

Henry Halford Vaughan - 1836 - 76 pages
...in working out a moral temper, yet we have alluded 0 " The ways of contemplation are not unlike the ways of " action commonly spoken of by the ancients...the entrance, but after a while fair " and even." Bacon, Advancement of Learning. 40 to a direct one, whose assistance the other continually requires...
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The Guernsey and Jersey Magazine, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 784 pages
...to assertion, without due and mature suspension of judgment : for the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients ; of which one was a plain and smooth way in the beginning, but in the end impassible ; the other rough...
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An Essay on the Rationale of Circumstantial Evidence: Illustrated by ...

William Wills - 1838 - 332 pages
...or mitigation. The golden words of Bacon are most apposite in relation to this important subject : " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...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
...mitigation. The golden words of Bacon are most apposite in relation to 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...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...smooth in the heginning, and in the end impassahle; the other rough and trouhlesome in the entrance, hut after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation; if a man will hegin with certainties, he shall end in douhts; hut if he will he content to hegin with douhts, he...
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