 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1860 - 836 pages
...expressed, in the words of the illustrious sage himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 782 pages
...expressed, in the words of the illustrious sage himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 788 pages
...the words of the illustrious ?яде himself, to be found in the Advancement of Learning, "If aman will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;...begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."* By guarding the mind so rigidly against false impressions, his philosophy inevitably has this tendency,... | |
 | 1863 - 190 pages
...Building are adlacent J Public Health Requires Careful Training It was Bacon who made the statement, "If a man will begin with certainties he shall end...to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties." Today the modern trend and research makes this statement adaptable to public health as a science, especially... | |
 | John Wilson - Trinity - 1864 - 524 pages
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contempktion are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken...but, if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shaM end in certainties. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning, book i. ; in Works, vol. i. p. 173.... | |
 | Rev. H. T. Howat - Bible - 1865 - 296 pages
...to grope their way from darkness into light. ' In contemplation,' says Lord Bacon, ' if a man begins with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' Nay, is it not a blessed counterpoise to the scandalous work of Renan, that so many on the Continent,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...Chestcrjield. THE learned are not wanted to princes, but princes to the learned. ROLLIN. • DOUBT. ANOTHER error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...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 - Trinity - 1867 - 700 pages
...DR. EDWARD BEECHES : Conflict ofAgts, pp. 805-6. § 5. IMPATIENCE or DOUBT, AJTD AVERSION TO TROUBLE. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...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 - English fiction - 1867 - 406 pages
...doubting. I will tell you 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...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... | |
 | George MacDonald - English fiction - 1867 - 400 pages
...doubting. I will tell you 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...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... | |
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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. 
