 ... but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity : nay, even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion : that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus,...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 50by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion, that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible...this order and beauty without a Divine Marshal." The real state of Bacon's opinion about final causes was plainly this, that the consideration of them was... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...of atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus ; for it is a thousand times more credible,...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 - 1838 - 894 pages
...of atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and r that other protestation of L. Catilina, to set on...fish in droumy waters, nnd to unwrap their fortunes, haffi thought in his heart." So as he rather saith it by rote to himself, as that he would have, than... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion : that is the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus : for it is a thousand times more credible that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifxh essence, i Such was the state of public opinion, that a few dared to commit a most atrocious... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...accused of atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus and Epicurus ; for it is a thousand times more credible,...fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, thin that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...of atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus : for it is a thousand times more credible,...immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need np God, than that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...of atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible,...fifth essence duly and eternally placed, need no God; thnn that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and... | |
 | John Dick - 1850 - 560 pages
...Bacon expresses hiir.self as if he doubted whether any man could be really an atheist. " The Scrij'ture saith, ' the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.' It is not said, lh" fool hath thought in his heart, so as he rather saith it by rote to himself, as thiit he would... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...oi atheism, doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus, and Democritus, and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements and 1 And the author of this passage ( the sentiment expressed in it is repeated elsewhere) and of this... | |
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