 | 1831 - 336 דפים
...to logic than theology ;" and in his Essays he finely remarks, " 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. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no... | |
 | Thomas Frognall Dibdin - 1831 - 372 דפים
...gratitude, and grow warm with devotion. " I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." True. But what after all avails it to us that such a mind should exist, if we are denied all communication... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 דפים
...they became fools." — ROMANS L 22. " I had rather," says Lord Bacon, " believe all the fables of the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." This sentence, from the pen of the grent philosopher, is a very good practical commentary upon my text,... | |
 | 1832 - 424 דפים
...been the common and spontaneous feeling of man, when he said, ' 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.' Can we, then, suppose that a sentiment, which thus manifests itself to be one of the elements wrought... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 דפים
...state, or else the remedy is worse than the disease. 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 miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | Origen Bacheler - 1833 - 388 דפים
...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... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 דפים
...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 attempted to cry down his philosophical... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1836 - 522 דפים
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 דפים
...; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVL 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 his ordinary works convince it.... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 דפים
...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 his ordinary works convince... | |
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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. 
