 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...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,... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 774
...colours. Fatter. EDUCATION an Intellectual Light. Wore it not better for a man in a fair room to sot up one great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner ? Bacon-. ED UC ATI ON -of Man. Every man has two educations — that... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 1020
...inefficiency of the scholastic method, and its tendency to propagate error. " Were it not " better (he says) for a man in a fair room to set up one great light . . . " than to go about with a small watch candle into every corner ?" For, he observes, " as you... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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,... | |
 | Sir Morell Mackenzie - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 174
...THROAT; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OP THE IMPERIAL-ROYAL SOCIETY OF PHYSICIANS OP VIENNA, ETC ETC. ETC. ' Were it not better for a man in a fair room to set up one great light, than to go about with a rushlight into every dark corner?"—BACON. PHILADELPHIA: LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON.... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...man may truly say of the schoolmen, " M Quaestionum minutiis scientiarum fnmguut 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 trnth proved by arguments, authorities,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...microscopic : its observation of men was extensive rather than minute. " Were it not better," he asks, " 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...so a man may truly say of the schoolmen, Quastionum minuliis 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,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...so a man may truly say of the schoolmen, Quoestionum minutiis scientiarum Jrangunt soliditatem* 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? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...a man may truly say of the schoolmen, " Quaestionum 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,... | |
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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? 
