 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pages
...can he except Factious is Christianity. Page 75- OfAlhetsm. I had rather believe all the fables and the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a wind : and, therefore, God ne1er wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...is not irreligious, he is prepared to give to God the things that are God's, but Cssar's to Caesar. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran," he writes in his Essay "Of Atheism", "than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true,... | |
 | Simon Varey - 1990 - 240 pages
...been flourishing for some time. In his essay 'Of Atheism' (1613) Francis Bacon said he preferred to believe 'all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pages
...philosophy is secular and rationalistic, he makes an eloquent and apparently sincere disclaimer of unbelief. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...silence at the stars. WALT WHITMAN (1819-921. US poet. When 1 Heard the Leam'd Astronomer. ATHEISM 1 sations were delicate, Ihis could not bul be disgusting;...was doubtless no! very suitable to Ihe characier Mind. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Atheism" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...stay for an answer." Or on death: "Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark." Or on atheism: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." Consider the opening line of the essay on gardens, in lighter vein but bearing again that touch... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...DONNE, (c. 1572-1631) British divine, metaphysical poet. "The Progress of the Soul," St. 52. Atheism 1 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... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 pages
...further living proof of his wisdom and munificence. Francis Bacon expressed the general faith in 1612: 'I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a Mind ... It is true that a little [natural] philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in... | |
 | Joseph Giovannoli - 2000 - 391 pages
...learned about Nature. Francis Bacon acknowledged, "I had rather believe all the fables in the [Golden] Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." 4 It is a fact of human behavior that disappointment can lead either to rejection or acceptance.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...the more Mans Nature runs to, the more ought Law to weed it out' (IIII. 3-4); 'I had rather beleeve all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde' (XVI. 3-5); 'Houses are built to Live in, and... | |
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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. 
