 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - Literary style - 1890 - 304 pages
...be further polished and accommodated for use and practice ; but-it increaseth no more in substance. Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste...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 - Quotations, English - 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 444 pages
...accepteth of them by a kind of relation (as the lawyers speak) as if we had known them before. ' Another is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without...' Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 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...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." Above all one ought to abstain from wresting the available evidence regarding a given point into harmony... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...invocate their own spirits to divine and give oracles unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded. Another error is an impatience of doubt, and haste...doubts, he shall end in certainties. Another error that hath some connexion with this latter is, that men have used to infect their meditations, opinions,... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 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...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Religious It is not to be forgotten that in every age natural philosoopposition to pjiy has had a troublesome... | |
 | John Arthur Hill - Mediums - 1911 - 240 pages
...experience, and have tumbled up and down in their own reason and conceits," showing a regrettable " impatience of doubt, and haste to assertion without...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." (Advancement of Learning, § 8.) I am not so sure that he will end in certainties. He may continue... | |
 | Charles Albert Dubray - Philosophy - 1912 - 662 pages
...To do otherwise is to misunderstand the r61e of reason. — PASCAL, Pensees, P. II, art. vi, 1. 82. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. — BACON, Proficience and Advancement of Learning, BI 83. Where men of judgment creep and feel their... | |
 | Alfred Alexander Mumford - Education - 1919 - 608 pages
...TATTON EGERTOX. J. FRED. FOSTER. •24 Jan., 1849.' CHAPTER XII 1848-1859 THE HOUK BEFORE THE DAWS ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...doubts, he shall end in certainties.' ' Another error of learning, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction of... | |
 | John Howard Mummery - Dentition - 1919 - 414 pages
...reputation for honesty of purpose by frankly acknowledging and registering its mistakes.' — JW MELLOR. ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties/ — FRANCIS BACON. PREFACE IN the following pages I have endeavoured to bring up to date, as far as... | |
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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. 
