 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 pages
...they habitually dwelt on this subject. " I would rather," says Lord Bacon, " believe all the fables of the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal Frame is without a Mind." Schiller, in his beautiful Hymn to Pleasure, represents her banner as waving upon the sunbright rock... | |
 | 1845 - 616 pages
...had thought — " I would rather believe," says the great apostle of inductive philosophy, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alkoran than that this universal frame is without a mind." It was, therefore, no wonder that the idolatry... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...they habitually dwelt on this subject. 'I would rather,' says Lord Bacon, 'believe all the fables of the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.' Schiller, in his beautiful Hymn to Pleasure, represents her banner as waving upon the sun-bright rock... | |
 | Emma Newton - 1847 - 230 pages
...spoke ; and what do you think she said? — "Wallace, I would rather," as Lord Bacon says, "I would rather believe all the fables in the legend and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind!" The Unbeliever smiled, and he answered, "Are we not agreed, my dearest Agnes ? What is that all-sustaining... | |
 | 1847 - 676 pages
...where he says, — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends, and the Talmud and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it ; — it is true that a little... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pages
...that his own atheism is the very essence of superstition. " I had rather," said a great philosopher, " believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." But the atheist takes the reverse view of the case, and falls into the extreme of superstitious credulity.... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...little credit with him. when he thus began one of his essays, ' I had rather believe all the fables la the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.' " 1 have a copy of this edition. A letter of the Lord Bacon's, In French, to the Marquess Flat, relating... | |
 | 1848 - 618 pages
...had thought — " I would rather believe," says the great apostle of inductive philosophy, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alkoran than that this universal frame is without a mind." It was, therefore, no wonder that the idolatry... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince...is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's miud to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for, while the mind... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 770 pages
...digests them need not dread to encounter iron, adamant, fish hooks, and glass bottles. I could sooner believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Koran, than that the doctrines of Calvin have any foundation in truth.— Brownlow's Exposition and... | |
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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. 
