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" 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. "
Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 89
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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God in Human Thought: Or, Natural Theology Traced in Literature ..., Volume 2

Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 478 pages
...the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it...
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The Life of Thomas Fuller: With Notices of His Books, His Kinsmen ..., Volume 1

John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 952 pages
...drinking largely sobers us again.' " Fuller's remark suggested to a friend its actual original in Bacon : "It is true that a little Philosophy inclineth man's...Philosophy bringeth men's minds about to Religion." (Bacon, Essays, xvi.) * This old anecdote, in an almost incredible form, has lately been repeated with...
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God in Human Thought: Ancient religions

Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 442 pages
...than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true that a little philosophy incliueth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth...men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments, &c. Suckling, Epilogue to Aglatira. 2 A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Bacon, Essays, Of Atheism. A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery ; but depth in...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 pages
...learning is a dangerous thing j • . Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.— POPE : On Criticism. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.— ^-B AGON : On Atheism. In Paradise Lost, Book V. 601, we find the expression—- Thrones, dominations,...
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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 4

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1877 - 584 pages
...they would be of another spirit. As it is, they bring Bacon's apothegm back to us very painfully : ' It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' ' It was said by Charles the Second, of Isaac Vossius, the most credulous and incredulous of men, '...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...the disease. 240 XVI <®t atfeefem 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 miracles to convince atheism, because his ordis nary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...ADDISON and STEELE: Taller, No. in. 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 miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...with Christ himself. OF ATHEISM. 1 had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,6 and the Talmud,7 and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it. It 2 Timou of Athens, as ho is...
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Prometheus Rebound: The Irony of Atheism

Joseph C. McLelland, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1988 - 385 pages
...to faith rather than an example of atheism. Bacon's essay Of Atheism contains the famous sentence, "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."2 His reasoning turns on the chain of second causes, a form of cosmological argument in fact,...
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