 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1874 - 504 pages
...of that date, seems to me at least to claim a more complete discussion than it has yet received. ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties,' says Bacon. And he aays, requires the word to indicate the people of Israel : and he explains it —... | |
 | sir Edward Strachey (3rd bart.) - 1874 - 508 pages
...of that date, seems to me at least to claim a more complete discussion than it has yet received. ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties,' says Bacon. And he says, requires the word to indicate tho people of Israel : and he explains it —... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 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 bo soonest believed, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 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 and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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 will be content t6 begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...suspension of the judgment, is an error in the conduct of the understanding." " In. contemplation, if a man begin with certainties he shall end in doubts, but...to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Well said and profoundly true. This is a celebrated and often-cited passage ; an admitted principle... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 906 pages
...away like a loaded shell.' The language r id 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 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. knowledge, winch is for the most part magistral and peremptory, »nd not ingenuous and faithful ; in... | |
 | George Gore - 1878 - 694 pages
...believe a doctrine in suppprt 'H 2 of which we have not sufficient evidence. ' In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties he shall end in doubts ; but...will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.'1 4. We may reasonably disbelieve any statement in science which we perceive really contradicts... | |
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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. 
