 | Ann Leah Underhill - 1885 - 540 sivua
...unpardonable. There is, perbaps, no human inquiry, as to which Bacon's wise aphorism is more applicable : ' If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' " If even the opinions and suggestions I may offer should fail in accuracy, the materials will remain... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 856 sivua
...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 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...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 - 1894 - 604 sivua
...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 - 1902 - 444 sivua
...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 - 1928 - 556 sivua
...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 sivua
...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 - 1908 - 440 sivua
...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... | |
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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. 
