 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is ' without a mind And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince...minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...magnify the Legend : a book sure of little credit with him, when he thus began one of his essays, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind.'" I have a copy of this edition. A Letter of the Lord Bacon's, in French, to the Marquess Fiat, relating... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 612 pages
...tam fem, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, enjus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is witlumt a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclincth a man's mind to atheism: but... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...basest degradation to which the faculties and dignity of human nature can be reduced. PALEY. ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...without a mind. And, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 528 pages
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacorr perhaps was sincere, when he said, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, who .ta'ui in his heart,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, -who said in his heart, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - Law - 1827 - 482 pages
...magnify the Legend, a book sure of little credit with him when he thus began one of his Essays : ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal Frame is without a mmd.*"§ * Juxta Exemplar Londini Impressum. Parisiis Typis Petrj Mettayer Typographi Régi MDCXXIV.... | |
 | William Jevons - Ethics - 1827 - 412 pages
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that ' he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind,'* he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed to... | |
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HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that... 
