 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 592 頁
...of the judgment, is an error in the conduct of the understanding. For the two ways of contemplation, are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients; of which the one was a plain and smooth way in the beginning, but in the end impassable ; — the other... | |
 | Oxford univ, prize essays - 1836 - 350 頁
...diffusive reader freed from the wholesome constraint of 0 " The ways of contemplation are not unlike the ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients;...in the entrance, but after a while fair and even." Bacon, Advancement of Learning, such a moral discipline ; but the system which he pursues offers positive... | |
 | Henry Halford Vaughan - 1836 - 76 頁
...in working out a moral temper, yet we have alluded 0 " The ways of contemplation are not unlike the ways of " action commonly spoken of by the ancients...the entrance, but after a while fair " and even." Bacon, Advancement of Learning. 40 to a direct one, whose assistance the other continually requires... | |
 | 1836 - 784 頁
...haste to assertion, without due and mature suspension of judgment : for the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken of by the ancients ; of which one was a plain and smooth way in the beginning, but in the end impassible ; the other rough... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 頁
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore...prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity shall end in certainties. Another error is in the manner of the tradition and delivery of knowledge,... | |
 | William Wills - 1838 - 332 頁
...or mitigation. The golden words of Bacon are most apposite in relation to this important subject : " If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end...but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certaintiesf." It is indispensable to the very existence of society that the magistrate... | |
 | 1838 - 596 頁
...mitigation. The golden words of Bacon are most apposite in relation to tins important subject - - It a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if hi- will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.' 1l is indispensable to the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 頁
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken...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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 頁
...haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action, commonly spoken...but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. " Another error is in the manner of the tradition or delivery of knowledge,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 頁
...smooth in the heginning, and in the end impassahle; the other rough and trouhlesome in the entrance, hut after a while fair and even : so it is in contemplation; if a man will hegin with certainties, he shall end in douhts; hut if he will he content to hegin with douhts, he... | |
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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. 
