| 1849 - 1188 pages
...mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no furth.gr ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." 2. I notice a second view which appears to me to be equally erroneous. It is that where there is a... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no...together, it must needs fly to providence and deity." (a) 8 Iliad. (ft) Life by Rawley. His will thus opens : " I bequeath my soul and body His will. into... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 386 pages
...mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.'" " This certainly falls in," said Campbell, " with your general arrangement at the beginning of time... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. —Bacon. 1125. Why fear... | |
| Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 pages
...in philosophy," he adds, " brings them back to religion, for while the mind looks on second causes, scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but, when it beholds them linked together, it must needs seek for a Divine cause. — But then, struck as it were... | |
| London city mission - 1840 - 620 pages
...mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther: but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. The Scripture saith, ' The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God:' it is not said, ' The fool... | |
| George Ramsay - 1843 - 574 pages
...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to Religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. Bacon's Essays, " Of Atheism." so the use of proximate rules of morality often prevents men from looking... | |
| 1844 - 276 pages
...a depth in it brings them about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." [Abridged from BASILEY'S Glory of the Heaven*.] SOME good we can all do ; and if we do all that is... | |
| 1855 - 602 pages
...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." The chief specimen which we possess of Bacon's talents as a historian is to be found in his " History... | |
| Robert Sears - 1844 - 514 pages
...mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate,...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." The unnumbered instances which nature furnishes, of fitness or adaptation, do not only prove a design,... | |
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