 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...spoken of by the Ancients. The one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable : the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after...with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if be will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ' Another error is in the manner... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...spoken of by the ancients : the 15 one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable, the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after...with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with =o doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...spoken of by the ancients : the 15 one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable, the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in con- / , templation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall \ ^ I end in doubts, but if he... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 556 pages
...is impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment . . . 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." Above all one ought to abstain... | |
 | 1904 - 640 pages
...is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if lie will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." We inay not be able to write... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...spoken of by the ancients ; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after...with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error that hath some connexion... | |
 | 1905 - 286 pages
...spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even." — Works III. 293. In The Conference of Pleasure he says of love: — " It is not like the virtues... | |
 | Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...spoken of by the ancients the one plain and smooth in the beginning and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance but after a while fair and even. IBID (^Advancement of Learning i. 3.) 1605. It would be too lengthy a task, and one for which I am... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - 1908 - 440 pages
...in the beginning, and in the end impossible ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, and after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation...with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Religious It is not to be forgotten... | |
 | John Arthur Hill - 1911 - 240 pages
...spoken of by the ancients : the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after...with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." (Advancement of Learning, § 8.)... | |
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... 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. 
