 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pagina’s
...alterations, and considerable improvement of the essay on Atheism, but a repetition of the same opinion : " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pagina’s
...little credit with him, when he thus began one of his essays, ' I had rather believe all the rabies in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, 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... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1834 - 312 pagina’s
...digest them, need not dread to encounter iron, adamant fish-hooks, and glassbottles! I could sooner believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Koran, than that the doctrine of Calvinism has any foundation in truth. I will here add the views of... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pagina’s
...moves round its own axis ; * and even Bacon himself — he who had nobly and eloquently said, that ' / had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind,'-\- — escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who attempted to cry down his philosophical... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 pagina’s
...doubted, or to have satisfied themselves early. " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, in the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." And the mind that dictated these words is sufficient in itself to establish the belief in a God. Its... | |
 | 1837 - 790 pagina’s
...might the great philosopher of a past age have exclaimed, in view of these luminous facts : " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." We are all occasionally liable in our career... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pagina’s
...correspondence with the other great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pagina’s
...does not finish for me with life; all shall be restored to order after death.—JJ Rousseau. 1124. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagina’s
...the state, or eke the remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an Antique Bust.] XVI.— OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the...than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 pagina’s
...from all the dotage which had reigned in the schools of learning for nearly 2,000 years, declared: " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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... | |
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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. 
