 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 strani
...or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. 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; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 strani
...opinions. He says, in his sixteenth essay, which is " Of Atheism," " 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 ; and therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 612 strani
...immanis, enjus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, 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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 strani
...discover virtue. XVI. OP ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talnv'd, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is ' without a mind And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 strani
...faculties and dignity of human nature can be reduced. PALEY. ATHEISM. 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. And, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 strani
...faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, ' 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.' But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, -who said in his heart, but... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 412 strani
...man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that ' he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind,'* he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 482 strani
...little credit with him when he thus began one of his Essays : ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal Frame is without a mmd.*"§ * Juxta Exemplar Londini Impressum. Parisiis Typis Petrj Mettayer Typographi Régi MDCXXIV.... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 strani
...great philosopher informs us in Essay xvii. " I had rather believe all the follies in the Legends, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." The remarks of Fabricius upon Plutarch are very judicious : Sane atheismum quemlibet in se superstitione... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 strani
...manner, I apprehend, that Lord Bacon felt, when he said that He " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." Or, in other words, that there was no proposition, how absurd soever, to which he could not more easily... | |
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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. 
