| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 ページ
...Of Atheism,' which is in the collection of 1612. 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... | |
| Emma Newton - 1847 - 230 ページ
..."Wallace, I would rather," as Lord Bacon says, "I would rather believe all the fables in the legend and the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind!" The Unbeliever smiled, and he answered, "Are we not agreed, my dearest Agnes ? What is that... | |
| 1848 - 614 ページ
...of superstition. " I had rather," said a great philosopher, " believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." But the atheist takes the reverse view of the case, and falls into the extreme of superstitious... | |
| Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 430 ページ
...from him be ridiculous and inconsistent, that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind," or an affair of chance ; which would be nonsense, and clearly impossible. But in his Essay... | |
| Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 416 ページ
...from him be ridiculous and inconsistent, that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind," or an affair of chance ; which would be nonsense, and clearly impossible. But in his Essay... | |
| David Thomas - 458 ページ
...account of their ever-acting forces, coeval with * " 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 it. It is true that a little philosophy... | |
| Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1852 - 552 ページ
...Advancement of Learning, book i. chap. i. — So again, " 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... | |
| 1852 - 1080 ページ
...who had eloquently published to the ;world, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. 37 We should have supposed that any kind of tendency to irreligion Vould have been the very... | |
| Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1852 - 610 ページ
...religion is the haven and Sabbath of man's contemplations." " I had rather believe all the fables in 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 atheism.... | |
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