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" I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page cdxliv
by Francis Bacon - 1834
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Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains ...

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...see them, except they be very great. 21. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. 22. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 23. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. i HAD rather believe all the fables in the legends, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal...without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy...
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The Christian Disciple, Volume 2

1821 - 490 pages
...to be combated, what other refutation is likely to prove effectual ?" " I had rather," says Bacon, " believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...without a mind. And, therefore, God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. 11 I bad rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fablet iu the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy incli* netn man's mind 1C atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 pages
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmnd, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political ...

Francis Bacon - 1822 - 238 pages
...with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a miud ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince...
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 17

1822 - 696 pages
...the Essay immediately preceding, and to which his comparison directly refers, with these words — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame i> without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because bis ordinary...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legends, and the Talmud, " and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind ;"'* he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed...
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A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of ...

Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 pages
...tam fem, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, enjus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is witlumt a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclincth a man's mind to atheism: but...
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