 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of...produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal." Bacon's Essays. place declamation against final causes, sanctioned (as has been absurdly supposed)... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1829 - 570 pages
...put into people by the same means as their fortune is depressed ? On Atheism. " The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." It is not said, " the fool hath thought in his heart." No, nor is it necessary; for, to say in his heart, is to think within himself, to be intimately convinced.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of...to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it ; for none deny there is a God but those for whom it maketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence duly and eternally placed, need no God ; than that an army...said, " the fool hath thought in his heart." So as ha rather saith it by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence duly and eternally placed, need no God ; than that an army...heart, There is no God :" it is not said, " the fool haffi thought in his heart." So as he rather saith it by rote to himself, as that he would have, than... | |
 | John Dick - 1838 - 564 pages
...religion. Lord Bacon expresses himself as if he doubted whether any man could be really an atheist. " The Scripture saith, ' the fool hath said in his heart,...to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it. For none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...to commit a most atrocious crime, more wished it success, and all endured it passively. 1 duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of...to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thorougbly believe it, or be persuaded of it ; for none deny there is a God, but those for whom it... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 pages
...beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. The Scripture saith, ' The fool hath said in his heart,...to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it; for none deny there is a God, but those for whom it maketh... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...four mutable elements and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, thin that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds...produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal." — Bacon's Essays. branch of philosophy ; but, granting this to be true, no good reason can be given... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...a thousand times more credible that four mutable elements and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of...to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it ; for none deny there is a God but those for whom it maketh... | |
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Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced... 
