 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 478 pagina’s
...the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 952 pagina’s
...drinking largely sobers us again.' " Fuller's remark suggested to a friend its actual original in Bacon : "It is true that a little Philosophy inclineth man's...Philosophy bringeth men's minds about to Religion." (Bacon, Essays, xvi.) * This old anecdote, in an almost incredible form, has lately been repeated with... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 440 pagina’s
...than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true that a little philosophy incliueth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth...men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pagina’s
...man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments, &c. Suckling, Epilogue to Aglatira. 2 A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Bacon, Essays, Of Atheism. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery ; but depth in... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pagina’s
...learning is a dangerous thing j • . Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.— POPE : On Criticism. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.— ^-B AGON : On Atheism. In Paradise Lost, Book V. 601, we find the expression—- Thrones, dominations,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1877 - 584 pagina’s
...they would be of another spirit. As it is, they bring Bacon's apothegm back to us very painfully : ' It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' ' It was said by Charles the Second, of Isaac Vossius, the most credulous and incredulous of men, '... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pagina’s
...the disease. 240 XVI <®t atfeefem 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. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordis nary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagina’s
...ADDISON and STEELE: Taller, No. in. 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 : and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pagina’s
...with Christ himself. OF ATHEISM. 1 had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,6 and the Talmud,7 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 2 Timou of Athens, as ho is... | |
 | Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 pagina’s
...to faith rather than an example of atheism. Bacon's essay Of Atheism contains the famous sentence, "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."2 His reasoning turns on the chain of second causes, a form of cosmological argument in fact,... | |
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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 miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
