 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | William Gannaway Brownlow - 1834 - 312 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 Seiten
...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 the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind?-\ — escaped not the bigoted attacks of the school-divines, who... | |
 | 1837 - 790 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...great men in the state ; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL OF ATHEISM. I had rather ditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read i universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...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, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought a miracle to convince Atheism, because... | |
 | London city mission - 1840 - 620 Seiten
...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, and the Talmud, 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;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 Seiten
...remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an Antique Bust.] XVI.— OF ATHEISM. 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... | |
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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. 
