 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 400 pages
...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 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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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. BACON. IN every question of conduct, where one side is doubtful, and the other side safe, we are bound... | |
 | John Wilson - 1867 - 700 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. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning, book ', ; in Works, voi. i. p. 178. Christianity being at... | |
 | George MacDonald - 1867 - 400 pages
...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 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 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 in doubts ; but it he will be"cQntenLtCLbegin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 9. Another error is in the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1870 - 438 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 in doubts ; but if he can be content to begin with doubts, and have patience awhile, he shall end in certainties.' — Adv.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 pages
...after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certain- 1 ties, 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 manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
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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. 
