 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...the other great men in VOL. II. IT the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | 1824 - 604 pages
...welfare of mankind, let me humbly convey my own sentiments, in the words of Lord Bacon, and say, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ;" and also permit me to. add, in the nervous... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. i HAD rather believe all the fables in the legends, 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 706 pages
...voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. 11 I bad rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1821 - 490 pages
...to be combated, what other refutation is likely to prove effectual ?" " I had rather," says Bacon, " believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And, therefore, God never wrought a miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 348 pages
...erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument. " I had rather believe all the fablet iu the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is true that a little philosophy incli* netn man's mind 1C atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...correspondence with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmnd, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...correspondence with the other great men in the state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVII. OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a miud ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...the Essay immediately preceding, and to which his comparison directly refers, with these words — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame i> without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because bis ordinary... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legends, and the Talmud, " and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind ;"'* he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. 
