 | 1850 - 560 pages
...of lavender strewed over them.—(To be continued.) • • DOHA GEEENWELL. SUPERSTITION.—"There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men...the superstition formerly received; therefore care would be had that the good be not taken away with the bad, which is commonly done when the people is... | |
 | William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...Atheism, which only leaves a man the may-be guides to an outward virtue. Bacon takes care to add — 'There is a Superstition in avoiding Superstition, when men think to do best u they go farthest from the Superstition formerly received.' And elsewhere — 'It is true that a little... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1852 - 552 pages
...of its readiest points of contact with what is holy, just, and good.] " Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...orders corrupt into a number of petty observances." Bacon, Essay 17, Of Superstition. — " Alle Abgotterei vom Nachahmen des rechten Gottesdienstes ihren... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and C orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding- superstition,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...laftly, Barbarous Times, efpecially joined with Calamities and Difafters. Superjlition, without a veil, is a deformed Thing ; for, as it addeth deformity to an Ape, to be fo like a Man ; fo the Similitude of Superftition to Religion, makes it the more deformed. And as wholefome... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing : for as it addeth deformity to...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received : therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition without a veil wo dangers : one, that he shall not be faithfully comipteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would3 be had that (as it farcth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received; therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would2 be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly... | |
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There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received... 
