 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...  The Atlantic Monthly - 第 566 頁1868完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 頁
...say of the schoolmen, Qucestionum minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliditatem. For were it not better 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? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 頁
...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 up one great light,...about with a small watch-candle into every corner? — Bacon (Adv. of Learning.) P. 299, n. 1, 1. 1.— See above, vo1. ii. p. 6, n. 1, c. 1, 1, 1. P.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 頁
...of the schoolmen, " QuiPStionum minutiis scientiarum frangunt soliditatem." For were it not better watch candle into every corner ? And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1855 - 398 頁
...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 up one great light...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 - 1859 - 852 頁
...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 up one great light,...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 - 1859 - 856 頁
...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 up one great light,...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, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 頁
...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 corner ? The generality of the schoolmen are for a while good and proportionable... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 頁
...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 up one great light,...about with a small watch-candle into every corner? — Bacon (Adv. of Learning.) P. 299, n. 1, 1. 1.— See above, vol. ii. p. 6, n. 1, c. 1, 1. 1. P.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 頁
...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 up one great light,...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Public Record Office - 1867 - 1020 頁
...by Lord Bacon on the 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... | |
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