| 1785 - 552 pages
...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 pages
...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 in physics, it... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. U " Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge, which is for the most... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...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 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...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 if he 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 the most part... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part... | |
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