 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...over, and then, the greatest exertion that can be made may be insufficient to arrest their fall. ' The one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and...certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity} Bacon might have said that both are unbelief ; for, he who rashly gives heed to superstitions delusions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...over, and then, the greatest exertion that can be made may be insufficient to arrest their fall. ' The one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and...certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity? Bacon might have said that both are unbelief ; for, he who rashly gives heed to superstitious delusions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...Deorum ImmortaliumNumine, omnia regi,gubernariqueperspeximus, omnes Gentes Nationesque superavimus. XVII Of Superstition IT were better to have no Opinion of God at all; then such an Opinion, as is unworthy of him : For the one is Unbeleefe, the other is Contumely: And... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...ImmortaHumNtimine, omnia regi,gubernariqueperspeximus, omnes Gentes Nationesque superavimus. XVII ©f Superstition IT were better to have no Opinion of God at all ; then such an Opinion, as is unworthy of him : For the one is Unbeleefe, the other is Contumely: And... | |
 | National education league - 232 pages
...to believe with Bacon, that, after all, superstition may be worse than atheism, for, as he says, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. Athesim leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws and reputation ; but superstition... | |
 | Louis Viardot - 1869 - 98 pages
...adore? Once more, it is I who am pious, when, instead of accusing * " It were better," says Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. Plutarch saith well to that purpose. ' Surely,' saith he, ' I had rather a great deal men should say... | |
 | Bholanauth Chunder - Bengal (India) - 1869 - 498 pages
...who raised the earth on his tusks from the bottom of the ocean. ' It were better to have no notion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him'—than blaspheming him as a fish, a pig, and a tortoise. In Allahabad they show the sacred asrama... | |
 | 1870
...Bacon has the following just observations on this subject : " It is botter to have no opinion of (rod at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him...Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : 'Surely, I had a great deal rather men should say there was no such man as Plutarch, than that they woidd say... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 pages
...for instance, and we answer, better by far — to use Bacon's own words again (on superstition) — "to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely, and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Diet}'." Plutarch saith... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...damned for not believing it, all I can say is, I would rather be damned. " It were better," says Bacon, "to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion...contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : ' Surely I had rather a great deal men should say there... | |
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all. than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: 
