 | 432 pages
...another as long as we stly I DIAMOND DUST. 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 TJSE must have preceded an abuse. SOME characters are like bubbles, so delicate as to be directed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation; ; , ; hut if he will be. content to begin with doubts he shall end in eertainties. Another error is in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...a while fair and even : fo it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he fhall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he fhall end in certainties. Another Error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of Knowledge,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 9. Another error is in the manner of the tradition 6 Ap. Sext. Empir. adv. Math. vii. 133. ' The book... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin- with doubts he shall end in certainties. BOOK I. compendious treatises for, practice, that foiin is not to be disallowed : but in the true handling... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1853 - 308 pages
...origin, respectively, from Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and from Hobbes. Some of * " If a man will begin in certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." — BACON, Advanrcmmt of learning, Book I. its members, like Locke and Middleton, though they went... | |
 | Benjamin Morgan Cowie - 1853 - 286 pages
...and not with the Pyrrhonists — although nothing human is to be laid down with absolute certainty. ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts,' says Lord Bacon l. Happy shall it be for all of us, if the contrary be verified in our case, if a wise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...Another error is in the manner of the tradition and deliver)' of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory ; and not ingenuous and... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1854 - 286 pages
...Herbert of Cherbury, and from Hobbes. Some of * " If a man will begin in certainties, he shall e»d in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." — BACON, Advancement of Learning, Book I. its members, like Locke and Middleton, though they went... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 532 pages
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while feir and even. So it is in contemplation : if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. — LOED BACON : Advancement of Learning, book i. ; in Works, vol. L p. 173. Christianity being at... | |
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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. 
