 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 pages
...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 pages
...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)... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...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...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 412 pages
...without being cheered, improved, and satisfied. " Should not the melancholy histories, which have been exhibited, of the follies and caprices of superstition,...Alcoran, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...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...Alcoran, 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... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...writer,) " that the whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery ; and that doubt, uncertainty, and suspense, appear the only result of our most accurate...this universal frame is without mind;"f he has ex-* pressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed to reasoning,... | |
 | Marquis Spineto - 1829 - 558 pages
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers (Lord Bacon, in his Essays) declares, that ' he would rather believe all the fables...Alcoran, 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...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, and the...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... | |
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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. 
