 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pagina’s
...see them, except they be very great. 21. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. 22. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 23. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pagina’s
...remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. i HAD rather believe all the fables in the legends, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal...without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | 1821 - 490 pagina’s
...to be combated, what other refutation is likely to prove effectual ?" " I had rather," says Bacon, " believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...without a mind. And, therefore, God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pagina’s
...voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. 11 I bad rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pagina’s
...erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fablet iu the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy incli* netn man's mind 1C atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pagina’s
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmnd, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1822 - 238 pagina’s
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a miud ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | 1822 - 696 pagina’s
...the Essay immediately preceding, and to which his comparison directly refers, with these words — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame i> without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because bis ordinary... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pagina’s
...greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legends, and the Talmud, " and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind ;"'* he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pagina’s
...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... | |
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I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. 
