 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 pages
...but after a while fair and even : so 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 in certainties. 9. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and ^, delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 856 pages
...of practical Wisdom. " In contemplation," he says (in any question of Knowledge, we add), " if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." With this piece of advice from the father of English Philosophy to the representatives of British scepticism... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1889 - 668 pages
...haec quae 69 Dr. Kitchin appositely quotes the well-known passage from the Advancement of Learning : ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' See Bk. i., E. and S., vol. iii. p. 293. Cp. Aph. 37. 80 It will be noticed that Natural Philosophy... | |
 | 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...doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts (' eaque aliquandiu patienter toleret.' De Augmentis), he shall end in certainties.' ** Here commences... | |
 | George Gluyas Mercer - 1889 - 48 pages
...in, all the dogmas of any sect of Christians. "If a man begins with certainties," says Lord Bacon, "he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end with certainties." The theology of such men does not pretend to completeness; it is only a... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 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...of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which ia for the most part magistral and peremptory and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 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. But the greatest error of all the rest is, the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...meet misfortunes. — Aaron Hill. When you doubt, abstain. — Zoroaster. In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. — Bacon. We know accurately only when we know little ; with knowledge doubt increases. — Goethe.... | |
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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. 
