 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...so a man may truly say of the schoolmen, Qucestionum minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliditatem. For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small watch candle into every corner? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 894
...a man may truly say of the schoolmen, " QuiPStionum minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliditatem." For ? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...fagot, one by one, you may quarrel with them, and bend them, and break them at your pleasure. . . . For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner? — Bacon (Adv. of Learning.) P. 299, n. 1, 1. 1.— See above, vo1.... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...whether the voice of man do so or not." 46. i PROPOS to education—here is a good illustration : -£*- " Were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner?" 47. " TT is without all controversy that learning doth -*- make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 854
...the solidity and coherency of the sciences by the minuteness and nicety of their questions]. ^/For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small . watch candle into every corner? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 852
...up the solidity and coherency of the sciences by the minuteness and nicety of their questions]. For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small watch candle into every corner? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...microscopic; its observation of men was extensive rather than minute. " Were it not better," he says, " for a man in a fair room to set up one great light,...candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner ? " Certainly, but the small watch-candle in some investigations is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 856
...up the solidity and coherency of the sciences by the minuteness and nicety of their questions]. For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small watch candle into every corner? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...Unprofitable curiosity is of two sorts 171 1. Fruitless speculation. 2. Erroneous modes of investigation. Were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one gnat light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch candle into every... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - عدد الصفحات: 390
...fagot, one by one, you may quarrel with them, and bend them, and break them at your pleasure. . . . For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner? — Bacon (Adv. of Learning.) P. 299, n. 1, 1. 1.— See above, vol.... | |
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For were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch candle into every corner? 
