 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 pages
...adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. a Lie! They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. an artifice! It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example... | |
 | Paul Johnson - History - 1994 - 434 pages
...God. Without God, what is he? As Francis Bacon put it: "They that deny God destroy man's nobility: for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature." We are less base and ignoble by virtue... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - History - 1995 - 396 pages
...immortal one? who will condescend to govern 87 by such sinister methods! 'Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, 'man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!" Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good... | |
 | Mary Shelley - Fiction - 1997 - 566 pages
...immortal one? who will condescend to govern by such sinister methods! 'Certainly, says Lord Bacon, 'man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he...kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!'4 Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...men's minds about to religlon. 696 Essays 'Of Atheism' They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; se Nicean barks of yore, ... ...Thy Naiad airs have...was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. 8809 M 697 Essays 'Of Beauty' That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express. 698 Essays... | |
 | Peter Loptson - Philosophy - 1998 - 588 pages
...immortal one? - who will condescend to govern by such sinister methods? "Certainly," says Lord Bacon, "man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!" Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner, when they try to secure the good... | |
 | David Williams - History - 1999 - 534 pages
...immortal one? who will condescend to govern by such sinister methods! 'Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, 'man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature!' Men, indeed, appear to me to act in a very unphilosophical manner when they try to secure the good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...men's minds to religion. They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin1 to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin...a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity,2 and the raising* of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and mark3 what a generosity... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, V, ii, 179(1588) 20 They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Francis Bacon, Essays, 16 (1625) 21 For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and... | |
 | Michael Caputo - Religion - 2000 - 248 pages
...partner. They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; /or certainly man is of kin to the beasts in his body; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him: for the one... | |
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They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility : for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. 
