 | 1785 - 552 psl.
...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 psl.
...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 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory ; and not ingenuous and faithful, in a sort, as may be soonest believed ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even; so it is in contemplation, if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...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 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even; so it is in contemplation, if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...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 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory ; and not ingenuous aud faithful, in a sort, as may be soonest believed ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be soonest believed, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory ; and not ingenuous and faithful, in a sort, as may be soonest believed, and... | |
 | 1836 - 354 psl.
...materials can be employed by men of opposite VOL. V. * will begin with certainties," says lord Bacon, "he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content...to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." The proud spirits who aspired to be gods, and fell, could still reason high of providence and fate... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 psl.
...rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation ; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...delivery of knowledge, which is for the most part magistral and peremptory, and not ingenuous and faithful ; in a sort as may be soonest believed, and... | |
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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. 
