 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 474
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind;"f he has ex-* pressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 620
...reflections to a much greater length ; but our limits forbid it. " I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the legend and the Talmud and the...than that this universal frame is without a Mind." And I shall venture to add, that it were better to believe all that the Pope has decreed, and Mahomet... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 482
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind;"f he has ex* Select Discourses by JOHN SMITH, p. 119. Cambridge, 1673. t Lord BACON in his Essays.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 442
...the voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the name argument. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this univer^il frame is without a mind! It is true that a little philoso' inclined) mini's ininil to .itii'... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - Страниц: 662
...and the heart.* And it was in this 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 Aleoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." Or, in other words, that there was no proposition,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - Страниц: 620
...tam fera, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, eujus mentem BOD imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame Is without a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism : but depth io philosophy... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - Страниц: 622
...cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables ia the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism: but depth in philosophy... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 336
...treating them -ither as subservient to logic than theology ;" and in his Essays he finely remarks, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no... | |
 | 1831 - Страниц: 336
...treating them rather as subservient to logic than theology ;" and in his Essays he finely remarks, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1831 - Страниц: 372
...time expand with gratitude, and grow warm with devotion. " I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind." True. But what after all avails it to us that such a mind should exist, if we are denied all communication... | |
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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; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
