 | 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 in physics, it... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 sider
...smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation...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 sider
...smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable: the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even; so it is in contemplation,...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 sider
...smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable: the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even; so it is in contemplation,...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 sider
...the end impassable: the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair audeveu; so it is in contemplation, if a man will begin with...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 sider
...in the bea-innino1, and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation...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 sider
...in the beginning, and in the end impassable ; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation...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 sider
...and 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...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 sider
...smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation...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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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. 
