 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 sidor
...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 sidor
...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, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sidor
...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, and the...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 - 1825 - 538 sidor
...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, 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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 sidor
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 sidor
...vol. vii. (6) See letter to the Duke of Buckingham, postea, p. 445. (r) See postea, p. 443, note (a). the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." (a) As knowledge consists in understanding the sequence of events, or cause and effect, (6) he knew... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sidor
...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 wrought miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 sidor
...degradation to which the faculties nnd dignity of human nature can be reduced. PALEY. ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...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 sidor
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, -who said in his heart, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 482 sidor
...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, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal Frame is without a mmd.*"§ * Juxta Exemplar Londini Impressum. Parisiis Typis Petrj Mettayer Typographi Régi MDCXXIV.... | |
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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. 
