 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - Broj stranica: 410
...other E 4 great great Men in the State, or elfe the Remedy is worfe than the Difeafe. XVI. Of Atheifm. Had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Aleoran, than this Univerfal Frame is without a Mind. And therefore God never wrought a Miracle to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - Broj stranica: 576
...are not to be approved, but may be loved. MEDIOCRITIES are due to Moral Matters ^ Extremes to Divine. I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmudi and the Alcoran, than that this Univerfal Frame is without a Supreme Being. Con. AS it adds... | |
 | 1762 - Broj stranica: 414
...magnify the Legend ; a book fure of little credit with him; when he thus begins one of his eflays : ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than, that this nniverfal frame is without a mind.' " The faireft and moft correft edition of this book in Latin, is... | |
 | 1792 - Broj stranica: 548
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greateft of modern Philofophen flhcrs* declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this univerfal frame is Without a mind j" he has cxprcflcd the fame feeling which in all ages and nations... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1792 - Broj stranica: 630
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greateft of modern philofophers declares, that " he would rather believe all " the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Al** coran, than that this univerfal frame is without mind * ;" he has exprefled the fame feeling,... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - Broj stranica: 518
...be wretched in the extreme. And thus, says Bacon, I had rather believe all-the fables in the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind. Atheism must rather be in the ? Bolingbrokci the life, than in the heart of man. Against atheists,... | |
 | 1869
...nothing of his purpose — presents a striking contrast to that of the great masters of philosophy. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind."* So said the author of the " Novum Organum." And the author of the " Principia" adds, that it "belongs... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1802 - Broj stranica: 610
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greateft of modern philofophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables " in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, ^ than that this univerfal frame is without mind ; "t * Scledl Difcourfes by TOHN SMITH^ p. i'iot ''fcambridge, r673t... | |
 | Hannah Adams - 1804 - Broj stranica: 398
...to myfelf, not fo much for their want of faith, as their want of learning." " I had rather, fays he, believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this univerfal frame is without a mind ; and therefore God never wrong'. ta miracle to convert an atheift,... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - Broj stranica: 478
...and of the latter time what is fittest. " Without good nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. " God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. " He that goeth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school and... | |
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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. 
