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" There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received... "
Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 89
by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat corruptcth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There...
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The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859

Religion - 1857 - 830 pages
...Church. ' Superstition, without .1 veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an npc to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition...makes it the more deformed; and as wholesome meat cornipte-li to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.'...
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Francis Bacon of Verulam: Realistic Philosophy and Its Age

Kuno Fischer - Philosophy - 1857 - 544 pages
...similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed." Bacon prudently adds, however : " There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had (as it fareth in ill-purgings)...
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Francis Bacon of Verulam, tr. by J. Oxenford

Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857 - 540 pages
...religion. This very similarity renders it the more hideous. "As it addeth deformity to an ape to be like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed." Bacon prudently adds, however : " There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think...
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Francis Bacon of Verulam: Realistic Philosophy and Its Age

Kuno Fischer - Philosophy - 1857 - 492 pages
...religion. This very similarity renders it the more hideous. " As it addeth deformity to an ape to be like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed." Bacon prudently adds, however : " There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think...
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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Epicycles are circles within circles, fmall orbits carried round larger ones. Superjiition, without a veil, is a deformed Thing ; for as it addeth deformity to an Ape to be fo like a Man ; fo the Similitude of Superjiition to Religion makes it the more deformed : and as wholefome...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...lucre, and barbarous times, specially with calamities, and disasters. Superstition without his vaile is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little wormes ; so good formes and orders, corrupt into a number of pettie obseruances. 16. WlSDOME FOR A...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addcth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude...superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. And aa wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing : for as it addeth deformity to...avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they j*o furthest from the superstition formerly received : therefore care would be had that (as it fareth...
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St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir

John Baillie - 1859 - 320 pages
...dungeon prove ; Thy works, night's captives. Oh ! let graco Drop from above." BACON remarks, that " there is a superstition in avoiding superstition,...from the superstition formerly received. Therefore," he adds, "care should be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with the...
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