 For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice...  Bacon's Novum organum - Page 247by Francis Bacon - 1889 - 629 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...asked of his friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will " do for another, to gratify him ? " For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 514 pages
...this branch of philosophy, have been most lamentably overlooked. " Certain it is," says Lord Bacon,* " that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." Of the Force of Animals, it may well be questioned whence it is derived, whether it be originally communicated... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...Job asked of his friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man " will do for another, to gratify him?" For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...loohs'through to the cause nf all things. " Looks through Nature, up to Nature's God." Lord Bacon says, " For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | William Woodley (C.R.N.) - 1834 - 100 pages
...is the First Cause." — Bacon. . . , The same enlightened Author in another place observes, that, " certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second causes," yet a secondary cause, I believe, cannot be justly assigned for the flowing of the Sea, which is like... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...Job asked of his friends: " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him?" For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' And as to too much knowledge producing scepticism, it is an assured truth, says Bacon, and a conclusion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...Job asked of his friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ?" For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...through to the cause of all things. " Looks through Natuie, up to Nature's God." Lord Bacon says, '' For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ?" For certain it is that God workcth nothing in nature but by second causes : and if they...the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Henry Stebbing - 1842 - 516 pages
...Job asked of his friends, ' Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ?' For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature...but by second* causes ; and if they would have it send! and Des Cartes lived under better auspices, and though they laboured at the development or two... | |
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