 | Francis Bacon - 1855 - 424 pages
...certe ?2 Cf. supr. I. 89. To this objection an answer is to be found in such sayings of Bacon's as " 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." Adv. of Learning, p. 51.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...assertion, without due and mature suspension of judgment For the two ways of contemplatiou arc not unliko the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the...other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after awhile fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begiu with certainties, he shall end... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation arc not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken...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 iu the manner... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways...smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; tLe other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation;... | |
 | John Wilson - 1859 - 560 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways...begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but, if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. — LORD BACON : Advancement... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways...begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he Avill be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is iu the manner... | |
 | 1860 - 782 pages
...expressed, in the words of the 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 to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1860 - 836 pages
...expressed, in the words of the 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 to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways...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... | |
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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. 
