 | Origen Bacheler - 1833 - 388 páginas
...Christian religion. " I had rather," says 'he, " believe all the fables in the Legend, the Tahnud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. God never wrought a miracle to convert aj^ Atheist, because his ordinary works confute him. A thorough... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 páginas
...through his only son Immanuel." (а) The evidence of this may be found in the preface to vol. vii. the fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." (a) As knowledge consists in understanding the sequence of events, or cause and effect, (6) he knew... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 páginas
...little credit with him, when he thus began one of his essays, ' I had rather believe all the rabies in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.' " I have a copy of this edition. A Letter of the Lord Bacon's, in French, to the Marquess Fiat, relating... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1834 - 312 páginas
...digest them, need not dread to encounter iron, adamant fish-hooks, and glassbottles! I could sooner believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Koran, than that the doctrine of Calvinism has any foundation in truth. I will here add the views of... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 páginas
...moves round its own axis ; * and even Bacon himself — 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,'-\- — escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who attempted to cry down his philosophical... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 páginas
...doubted, or to have satisfied themselves early. " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, in the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." And the mind that dictated these words is sufficient in itself to establish the belief in a God. Its... | |
 | 1837 - 790 páginas
...might the great philosopher of a past age have exclaimed, in view of these luminous facts : " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alkoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." We are all occasionally liable in our career... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 páginas
...with the other great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture...You shall read in some of the friars' books of mort And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 páginas
...does not finish for me with life; all shall be restored to order after death.—JJ Rousseau. 1124. I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 páginas
...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,...without a mind. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For... | |
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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 ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
