 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - 386 pagina’s
...than those of the Christian religion. " I had rather," says he, "believe all the fables in the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. God never wrought a miracle to convert an atheist, because his ordinary works confute him. A thorough... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 pagina’s
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, .A. Godey But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, who said in his heart, but... | |
 | 1858 - 690 pagina’s
...wings of an angel, flew through the spheres of thought with the gospel of modern science, " 1 would rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind." We know there are difficulties in the belief that God is a spirit, but they are the difficulties... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pagina’s
...which they warrant. I would therefore, in the fullest sense, adopt the language of Bacon and say, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind ; and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 pagina’s
...reminds us of the saying of one who was not deficient in his recognition of and in his respect for law. " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,-...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Passing over for the present the Chapters on Power, "Wealth, Culture, Behavior, we come to that on... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pagina’s
...the voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy inclined] man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pagina’s
...314. 323. 327. 330. 343, 344. 345 MISCELLANEOUS - 292. 344 RESULTS OF READING. CHAPTER I. THE DEITY. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than believe that this universal frame is without a mind. 1 None deny that there is a God, but those for... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1844 - 374 pagina’s
...reflection of one of the profoundest of minds, that of Lord Bacon, in which he said he " could more easily believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without an intelligent and designing Mind." The existence of an * Psalm xa. almighty and intelligent Being,... | |
 | Marquis Spineto - 1845 - 544 pagina’s
...man. When the greatest of modern philosophers (Lord Bacon, in his Essays) declares, that ' he would rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the...Alcoran, 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... | |
 | Marquis SPINETO - 1845 - 544 pagina’s
...man. When the greatest of modern, philosophers (Lord Bacon, in his Essays) 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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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. 
