 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...express what history proves to have been the common and spontaneous feeling of man, when he said, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' Can we, then, suppose that a sentiment, which thus manifests itself to be one of the elements wrought... | |
 | 1832 - 354 pages
...he was shrewdly suspected of favoring atheism, who had eloquently published to the world, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind." We should have supposed that any kind of tendency to irreligion would have been the very last thing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...correspondence with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...minds about to religion ; for, while the mind of man locketh upon the second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...moves round its own axis ; * and even Bacon himself â he who had nobly and eloquently said, that ' / had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind,'-\- â escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who attempted to cry down his philosophical... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...with the other great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 pages
...does not finish for me with life; all shall be restored to order after death.âJJ Rousseau. 1124. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...state, or eke the remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an Antique Bust.] XVI.â OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy... | |
 | London city mission - Christian socialism - 1840 - 620 pages
...from all the dotage which had reigned in the schools of learning for nearly 2,000 years, declared: " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 612 pages
...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... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1858 - 690 pages
...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... | |
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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 miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that... 
