 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - Страниц: 522
...doubted, or to have satisfied themselves early. " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, in the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." And the mind that dictated these words is sufficient in itself to establish the belief in a God. Its... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 790
...might the great philosopher of a past age have exclaimed, in view of these luminous facts : " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." We are all occasionally liable in our career... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - Страниц: 894
...with the other great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture...You shall read in some of the friars' books of mort And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - Страниц: 360
...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,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - Страниц: 244
...state, or eke the remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an Antique Bust.] XVI.— OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - Страниц: 386
...than those of the Christian religion. " I had rather," says he, "believe all the fables in the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. God never wrought a miracle to convert an atheist, because his ordinary works confute him. A thorough... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - Страниц: 612
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, .A. Godey But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, who said in his heart, but... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 690
...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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - Страниц: 846
...which they warrant. I would therefore, in the fullest sense, adopt the language of Bacon and say, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind ; and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - Страниц: 632
...the voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy inclined] man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for... | |
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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. 
