...he was shrewdly suspected of favoring atheism, who had eloquently published to the world, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind." We should have supposed that any kind of tendency to irreligion would have been the very last thing...

...is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimurn facinus audereut pauci, plures velleni, omnes patereutur :" but let such military persons be assured, and well...state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than...

...through his only son Immanuel." (а) The evidence of this may be found in the preface to vol. vii. the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." (a) As knowledge consists in understanding the sequence of events, or cause and effect, (6) he knew...

...little credit with him, when he thus began one of his essays, ' I had rather believe all the rabies in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.' " I have a copy of this edition. A Letter of the Lord Bacon's, in French, to the Marquess Fiat, relating...

...moves round its own axis ; * and even Bacon himself — he who had nobly and eloquently said, that ' / had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind,'-\- — escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who attempted to cry down his philosophical...

...atque is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur." But let such military persons be assured and well...state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran,...

...does not finish for me with life; all shall be restored to order after death.—JJ Rousseau. 1124. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...is 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...

...from all the dotage which had reigned in the schools of learning for nearly 2,000 years, declared: " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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...

...is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnea paterentur :"i but let such military persons be assured, and well...factious and popular; holding also good correspondence wtth the other great men in the state, or eke the remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an...

...wings of an angel, flew through the spheres of thought with the gospel of modern science, " 1 would rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind." We know there are difficulties in the belief that God is a spirit, but they are the difficulties...