 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...providence and Deity. LORD BACON : Essay XVII.: Of Atheism. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility; i *lhMF U @ KC 6 ' RߕoX # ߀ h . f~ i} bc> D F...< } i Z L6 n e N5 e ą s ~ 2KS a j ) Qv q"뙜 ( human nature. LORD BACON: Essay XVH. : Of Atheism. Not that we are so low and base as their atheism... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 344 pages
...heartily there is no God. Again, further on, we find : " They that deny a God destroy a 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." (What is of kin to beasts and not to God is base and ignoble ;) Man is of kin to beasts and not to... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Authors - 1880 - 380 pages
...applicare profanum^ Plato could have said no more. . . . 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. 1 Jt is not profane to deny the deities of the vulgar, but it is profine to apply the opinions of the... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 344 pages
...further on, we find : " They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of km to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature." (What is of kin to beasts and not to God is base and ignoble ;) Man is of kin to beasts and not to... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1906 - 832 pages
...debasing and vulgarizing effects of atheism, he says: "They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body...likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature. . . . Man when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force... | |
 | Leo Martin Shea - Biography & Autobiography - 1926 - 140 pages
...; and atheism destroys that supposition. "They that deny a God destroy Man's nobility", said Bacon, "for certainly Man is of kin to the beasts by his...kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."5 In The Function of the Poet Lowell touched upon the withering influences materialism has... | |
 | Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 560 pages
...within themselves, and deny a God destroy man's nobility, for would be glad to be strengthened by the certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God it is odds he will fall asleep. On the by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble other side, to be deceived... | |
 | Cyril Alington - Christianity - 1927 - 116 pages
...for the master ? "1 Bacon's opinion is worth quoting. " 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 kin to God, by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and... | |
 | Frederick DeLand Leete - Religion and science - 1928 - 396 pages
...whose interest it would be) that there were no God."8 "They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body...kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."7 In a remarkable letter penned to Father Benedetto Castelli, mathematician, in 1613, by... | |
 | Francis Meehan - English literature - 1928 - 764 pages
...to find talk and discourse ; but to weigh and consider. 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 kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. A Latinist. Though Bacon wrote other books... | |
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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. 
