 IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely...  Litterarhistorische Forschungen - Page 100edited by - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) I had rather a great deal men should say there was no...that they should say that there was one Plutarch that woidd eat his children an soon as they were born; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 678 pages
...superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) I had rather a great deal men should say there was no...that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...pagan orthodozy. In a passage translated and justly praised by Bacon, Plutarch observes: "Surely, I had rather a great deal men should say there was no...that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poeta speak of Saturn;" the gods, he infers, have a similar preference, and hate superstition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 pages
...Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) I had rather a great deal men should say there ivas no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should...that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...Superstition 2 is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch 3 saith well to that purpose, 'Surely, ' saith he, '1had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they shoiild say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born;' as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...Superstition2 is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch3 saith well to that purpose, 'Surely,' saith he, 'I had rather a great deal men should say there was no...would eat his children as soon as they were born;' as the poets speak of Saturn : and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater4... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pages
...superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : " Surely," saith he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no...would eat his children * as soon as they were born," as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 430 pages
.../ had rather, a great deale, Men should say, there was no such Man, at all, as Plutarch; then thai they should say, that there was one Plutarch, that would eat his Children, as soon as they -were borne, as the Poets speake of Saturne. And, as the Contumely is greater towards God, so the Danger... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...rather a great deal men shruld say there was no such a man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the con10 tumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater... | |
 | J. Hiles Hitchens - 1879 - 266 pages
...name, but to stamp ourselves with crass ignorance or wilful blindness. Plutarch once wrote : " I would rather, a great deal, men should say there was no such man as Plutarch, than that they should say there was once a Plutarch who ate his own children." So I say... | |
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