 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 494 sidor
...the dust. BISHOP HORNE. OF SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : " Surely," saith he,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 sidor
...It were better," says this great and real philosopher, " to have no notion of God at all, ihan such an opinion as is unworthy of him, for the one is unbelief, the other contumely."—Essay 18. They who hold, as I do, that in addition to the bad tendency of atheism upon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 sidor
...nationesque superavimus." OF SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, ihe other is contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 sidor
...nationesque superavimus." XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : " Surely," saith he,... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 sidor
...school and not to travel. —Bacon. 1266. It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.—Ib. 1267. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 sidor
...an Antique Gem.] XVII.— OF SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose ; " Surely," saith he,... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 sidor
...eternity. FRANCIS BACON, ON SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saiih well to that purpose : " Surely I had rather... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 sidor
...idea is stated in the commencement : — It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : ' Surely,' saith.... | |
 | Henry Mead - 1846 - 254 sidor
...almost a pitiful one. BACON ON SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose ; " Surely (saith he),... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 sidor
...changeful,] " It were better," says Bacon, in his 1 7th Essay, " to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly Superstition is the reproach of the Deity. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger... | |
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : 
