 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 386 pages
...would rather be damned. " It were better," says Bacon, "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 deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : '' Surely I had rather... | |
 | Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...would rather be damned. " It were better," says Bacon, "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 deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : ' Surely I had rather... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 390 pages
...would rather be damned. " It were better," says Bacon, "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 certamly superstition is the reproach of deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : ' Surely I had... | |
 | Theology - 1871 - 442 pages
...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... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 416 pages
...doth best discover virtue. OF ScpERsnnox. 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 : "Surely," saith he,... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - Religious literature - 1872 - 408 pages
...doth best discover virtue, OF SUPERSTITION. 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 : "Surely," saith he,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - Bible - 1872 - 422 pages
...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 superstition is the reproach of the Deity."— Баem. idolatry of the Israelites a Ex. xxxii. ; 1... | |
 | Arthur Dyot Thomson - Bible - 1872 - 956 pages
...the world ? " Bacon says in his Essays, " 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 Deity." The Eabbis however, did not embrace this view, for they settled... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...nationesque superavimus. ' XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. 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 2 saith well to that purpose : Surely, saith he,... | |
 | John Tyndall - Crystallization - 1874 - 132 pages
...Supernatural Religion/ Vol. I. p. 76. 1 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.' BACON. PREFACE. AT the request of my Publishers, strengthened by the expressed desire of many Correspondents,... | |
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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 : 
