 | John Wilson - 1864 - 524 pages
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contempktion are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken...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.... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - 1865 - 296 pages
...to grope their way from darkness into light. ' In contemplation,' says Lord Bacon, ' if a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Chestcrjield. THE learned are not wanted to princes, but princes to the learned. ROLLIN. • DOUBT. ANOTHER error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...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... | |
 | John Wilson - 1867 - 700 pages
...DR. EDWARD BEECHES : Conflict ofAgts, pp. 805-6. § 5. IMPATIENCE or DOUBT, AJTD AVERSION TO TROUBLE. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning, book ', ; in Works, voi. i. p. 178. Christianity being at... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 406 pages
...doubting. I will tell you what Lord Bacon says, and of all writers of English I delight in him : " So it is in contemplation : if a man will begin with...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." Now I could not tell the kind or character of this man's doubt ; but it was evidently real, and not... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 400 pages
...doubting. I will tell you what Lord Bacon says, and of all writers of English I delight in him : " So it is in contemplation : if a man will begin with...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." Now I could not tell the kind or character of this man's doubt ; but it was evidently real, and not... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 pages
...Church turn pale, its pulse of faith beats languidly. — Baptist W. Noel. In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties he shall end in doubts; but...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.— Bacon. The difficulty of ascertaining precisely whether it be Truth which we have attained, is, in... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1870 - 700 pages
...loaded ' shell.' The language of a healthy and hopeful theology is that of Lord Bacon, ' If a man begins with certainties he ' shall end in doubts ; but if .he will be content to begin with ' doubts, he will end with certainties.' Science, history, and the principles of our moral nature, are formidable... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
