 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...so a man may truly say of the schoolmen, QiHZstionum minutiis scientiarumfrangunt soitditatem. 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 - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...so a man may truly say of the schoolmen, Qiuzstionum 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 - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliditatem" (minute disputations destroy the solidity of sciencej) 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 - 1825 - 524 pages
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...iron, and not in bars of iron. He who cannot dilate the sight of his mind should consider whether it is not better for a man in a fair room to set up one...candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watch-candle into every corner. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...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,... | |
 | Education - 1829 - 592 pages
...minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliilitatem " (minute disputations destroy the solidity of science). 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,... | |
 | 1840 - 534 pages
...their harmony, each supporting the other, is as the strength of the old man's fagot in the band ; for were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small watch-, candle into every corner? — LORD BACON. THEY are happy who have not taken up their rest in a world fluctuating as the sea,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...Unprofitable curiosity is of two sorts : ... 39 1. Fruitless speculation. 2. Erroneous modes of investigation. Were it not better for a man in a fair room to set...about with a small watch candle into every corner ? The generalities of the schoolmen are for a while good and proportionable ; but then, when you descend... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...and not in bars of iron. He who cannot dilate the sight of his mind, should consider whether it is not better for a man in a fair room to set up one...candlestick of lights, than to go about with a small watchcandle into every corner. R. Life, p. xxii. His tract upon Universal Justice was published in... | |
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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? 
