 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...and the heart.* And it was in this manner, I apprehend, that Lord Bacon felt, when he said that He " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Aleoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." Or, in other words, that there was no proposition,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 498 pages
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 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 620 pages
...tam fera, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, eujus mentem BOD imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame Is without a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism : but depth io philosophy... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 622 pages
...cujus mentem non imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables ia the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism: but depth in philosophy... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...treating them -ither as subservient to logic than theology ;" and in his Essays he finely remarks, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...treating them rather as subservient to logic than theology ;" and in his Essays he finely remarks, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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 - Anglican Communion - 1831 - 372 pages
...time expand with gratitude, and grow warm with devotion. " I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and...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... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Bowker Ash - 1831 - 648 pages
...conduce to the better understanding thereof. NOTE 5. Which through creation has been writ in gold? " God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it."—BACON. Quis est tam vecors, qui cnm inspexerit in ccelum, mm sentiat Dcum esse?—Cir. NOTE... | |
 | Theology - 1832 - 424 pages
...express what history proves to have been the common and spontaneous feeling of man, when he said, ' I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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... | |
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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. 
