 | 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...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,... | |
 | 1860 - 788 pages
...the words of the illustrious ?яде himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "If aman will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 860 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...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be soonest believed, and... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...hoodwink truth, and go to blind-man's buff. Hone. DOUBT— and Certainties. In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will bu content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Bacon, DOUBT— Effects of. Our doubts... | |
 | 1863 - 190 pages
...Building are adlacent J Public Health Requires Careful Training It was Bacon who made the statement, "If a man will begin with certainties he shall end...to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Today the modern trend and research makes this statement adaptable to public health as a science, especially... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 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...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be soonest believed, and... | |
 | John Wilson - 1864 - 524 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...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... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 408 pages
...says, and of all writers of English I delight in him : THE COFFIN. 87 " So it is in contemplation : if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...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... | |
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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. 
