 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 ページ
...greatest of modern philosophers declares, that "he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind,"2 he has expressed the same feeling which in all ages and nations has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 546 ページ
...\vhole passage in which this occurs is well worth attention. "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.... | |
 | Robert Turnbull - 1854 - 554 ページ
...whole passage in which this occurs is well worth attention. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind. Ood never wrought a miracle to convert an atheist, because his ordinary works confute atheism.... | |
 | 1855 - 550 ページ
...fools." — ROM ANS i. 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 great philosopher, is a very good practical commentary... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 ページ
...atheism, was raised against the man who had said : " I would rather helieve all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." 1 But Bacon had to encounter the prejudices even of the learned. Cuffe, the Earl of Essex's... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 ページ
...greatest of modern philosophers declares, that "he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind ; " (Lord1 Bacon in his Essays;) he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 ページ
...concessions made to intimidation. ESSAY XVI. 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 convince1 atheism, because his ordinary works... | |
 | John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 518 ページ
...pleasant supposition, Bacon has declared, — " 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 in many other passages, he has left incontestable evidence of his belief in God. He says... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1858 - 588 ページ
...than the heavens discover." " I had rather," says Lord Bacon, " 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... | |
 | Rev. James Gardner - 1858 - 1042 ページ
...' Essay on Atheism,' uses these strong words : " 1 had rather believe all the fables in the legend, s Gardner a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works... | |
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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. 
