 | 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 in doubts : but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."3 It is true in many cases,... | |
 | 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 in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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. Other errors there are in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgement. 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. 9. Another error is in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judge- \ [ f ment For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike ' the two ways...it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certain* ties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to. begin with doubts, he shall end... | |
 | Ann Leah Underhill - 1885 - 540 pages
...unpardonable. There is, perbaps, no human inquiry, as to which Bacon's wise aphorism is more applicable : ' 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.' " If even the opinions and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1889 - 742 pages
...a passage in the Advancement of Learning (bk. i.) in which he says, if not truly, at least finely: 'if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts (' eaque aliquandiu patienter toleret.' De Augmentis), he... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 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. But the greatest error of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 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. 
