 | 1785 - 552 sider
...phyfical inveftigation. Lord Bacon has well obferved, " that one, who begins with certain" ties, Ihall end in doubts ; but if he will be " content to begin with doubts, he fhall end in " certainties."-}- The progrefs of fcience is ufually flow and gradual ; and in all ordinary... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 480 sider
...well established, he inferred their causes. Bacon well says, " that one who begins with certainties, shall end in doubts ; but, if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." THUS it has happened, that when any one has made a progress, or some useful discovery... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 sider
...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...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 sider
...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...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. U " Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 sider
...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 to begin with doubts, he sliall end in certainties. » U " Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 sider
...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...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 sider
...troublesome in the entrance, , but after a while fair and even : so it is in contempla- , tion; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.^ Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sider
...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...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 sider
...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...will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for... | |
 | 1836 - 354 sider
...materials can be employed by men of opposite VOL. V. * will begin with certainties," says lord Bacon, "he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." The proud spirits who aspired to be gods, and fell, could still reason high of providence... | |
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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. 
