 I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn.  Bacon's Novum organum - Page 50by Francis Bacon - 1889 - 629 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal meu should say there was no such mau at all us Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children f as soon as they were born;" as the poets speak of Saturn: and, as the contumely is greater towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children 2 as soon as they were born, ' as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children2 as soon as they were born,' as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children2 as soon as they were born," as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...he, "I had rallier a great deal men should say, there was no such man at all aз Plutarch, than that e oI Saturn." And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men. Atheism... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - 1887 - 270 pages
...Surely, I had rather a great deal men should say, there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born j as the poets speak of Saturn ; " the gods, he infers, have a similar preference, and hate superstition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that w.iuld eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets spjak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would...Saturn: and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so * " If it is a dream let me enjoy it, since it makes me both a happier and a better man." —Addison,... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones, Joseph Samuel Exell, Charles Neil - 1889 - 538 pages
...he, " I had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would...as they were born," as the poets speak of Saturn. — Bacon. [1 1944] I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing... | |
 | Plutarch - 1889 - 562 pages
...such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say, that there was one Plutarch that would eat up his children as soon as they were born, as the poets speak of Saturn." The chapter " On Fortune " should be read by poets, and other wise men ; and the vigor of his pen appears... | |
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