 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...hummtis, qua in ditinn 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 1 that (as it fareth... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 330 pages
...other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. It is, without a veil, a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to an...superstition to religion makes it the more deformed.' " I am disposed to go beyond the learned philosopher and maintain, that whatever was the purpose of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 872 pages
...supercilious over the superstitions of their predecessors in groping after truth ? For, to quote Bacon, ' there is a superstition in avoiding superstition,...do best if they go farthest from the superstition they formerly received.' The word superstition itself is a curious one. How did it come to carry the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 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 would' be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...lucre, and barbarous times, specially with calamities, and disasters. Superstition without his vaile is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little wormes ; so good formes and orders, corrupt into a number of pettie obseruances, 16. WlSDOME FOB A... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...lastly barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...makes it the more deformed : and as wholesome meat corrnpteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number ATHEISM. of petty observances.... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 pages
...the kingdom of heaven is like to a king that made a bridal to his child. Latimer, ,S ;• . p. 184. For, as it addeth deformity to an ape, to be so like...superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed. Bacon, Ess. xvn. p. 69. Simple, adj. (Rom. xvi. 19). Artless, guileless; Lat simplex, which is said... | |
 | 1866 - 692 pages
...; and lastly, barbarous times, joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing, for as it addeth deformity to...man, so the similitude of superstition to religion maketh it more deformed ; and ав wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 586 pages
...that made a bridal to his child. Latimer, Serm. p. 284. For, as it addeth deformity to an ape, to he so like a man ; so the similitude of superstition to religion, makes it the more deformed. Bacon, Ess. xvn. p. 69. Simple, adj. (Rom. xvi. 19). Artless, guileless ; Lat. simplex, which is said... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 should be had that (as it fareth... | |
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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... 
