 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 392
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 790
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 894
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...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,...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...state, or eke the remedy is worse than the disease. [Cicero. From an Antique Bust.] XVI.— OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Origen Bacheler, Robert Dale Owen - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...than those of the Christian religion. " I had rather," says he, "believe all the fables in the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. God never wrought a miracle to convert an atheist, because his ordinary works confute him. A thorough... | |
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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. 
