 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 386 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... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 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...for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certamly superstition is the reproach of deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : ' Surely I had... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 442 pages
...or atheism." Bacon had. already said, in his " Essay of Superstition," " It were better to have no God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." And he quotes also Plutarch as saying, "Surely, I had rather, a great deal, men should... | |
 | Arthur Dyot Thomson - Bible - 1872 - 876 pages
...is suitable to God), whence comes the evil which exists in the world ? " Bacon says in his Essays, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of Deity." The Rabbis however, did not embrace this view, for they settled this momentous question by... | |
 | James Comper Gray - Bible - 1872 - 422 pages
...is the 'flery law' (De. xxxiu. 2). It is lively (Gal. iii. 21; Bo. viii. 2)." — Besgel. h Geroí:. "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than euch an opinion as is unworthy of Him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...progress, where no longer one man, or one * Bacon, however, in his essay on Superstition, says justly, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him." The whole essay well deserves attention in these times. principle, directs its steps, but where the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...? 9. Tell a lie and find a troth. Abeunt studia in mores. Fortune is like the market. 10. ' Better have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him.' — How does your author make out this ? 11. ' If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go... | |
 | Henry Major - Student teachers - 1873 - 588 pages
..." The lord might not kill or maim his villein, but he might beat him with impunity." 9. Analyse : " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than to have such an opinion as is unworthy of him." — LORD BACON. 10. Decline throughout — anguis and... | |
 | John Tyndall - Crystallization - 1874 - 132 pages
...nature endowing.' XENOPHANES of Colophon (six centuries BC), ' Supernatural Religion/ Vol. I. p. 76. 1 It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely.' BACON. PREFACE. AT the request of my Publishers, strengthened by the expressed desire of many Correspondents,... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 536 pages
...thrusting upon us, in consequence, a conception of that Being which almost makes us exclaim with Bacon : " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than...unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely."1 Dr. INlansel asks: " Is matter or mind the truer image of God?"2 But both matter and mind... | |
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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: 
