When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.


The works of Francis Bacon (ed. 1803)


When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.