 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 páginas
...Atheism, but a repetition of the same opinions. He says, in his sixteenth essay, which is " Of Atheism," " 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 miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 páginas
...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,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 páginas
...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talnv'd, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is ' without a mind And therefore God never... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 páginas
...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,...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 - 1827 - 558 páginas
...is sufficient for my purpose to quote the 2d and 3d. After frequent and most attentive perusal, I am convinced that these Fragments were written by Bacon,...paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, -who said in his heart, but did not think ' There is no God.' He rather said these things for a trial of... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 482 páginas
...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 - 1827 - 412 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 páginas
...great philosopher informs us in Essay xvii. " I had rather believe all the follies in the Legends, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." The remarks of Fabricius upon Plutarch are very judicious : Sane atheismum quemlibet in se superstitione... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 páginas
...the voluminous and no\y 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 trae 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 ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
