 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 548 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion : for in the entrance of philosophy,...induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a * Rawley. Oh for a Boswell to have recorded the conversation, when he had Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Selden,... | |
 | George Sandby - 1848 - 402 pages
...often overlooked and forgotten ? Whether it be, as Bacon says in his Advancement of Learning, that " in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes,...there, it may induce some oblivion of the Highest Cause ;" whether this be correct, I know not; but it is a common remark, that they, who by the habitual course... | |
 | George Sandby - 1848 - 404 pages
...says in his Advancement of Learning, that " in the entrance of philosophy, when the teeond cautet, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves...there, it may induce some oblivion of the Highest Cause ;" whether this be correct, I know not ; but it is a common remark, that they, who by the habitual... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...worthy of remembrance it is, as an " assured truth, and a conclusion of experience (says Bacon) that, in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes,...oblivion of the Highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to Atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion : for in the entrance of philosophy,...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passcth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind }1~, 6 } I ހy `_FMs[U uE " second....scene, t ha t men once placed, take in with the co oner themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion, for in the entrance of philosophy,...oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, — then, according to the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion, for in the entrance of philosophy,...oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, — then, according to the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1851 - 540 pages
...of philosophy may incline the man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the rnind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy,...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man pass * Taylor's Nat. Hist, of Enthusiasm. f See Letters between Leibnitz and Clarke. eth on farther,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy...man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe... | |
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But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the... 
