 | 1831 - 336 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 1142 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1831 - 336 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1832 - 424 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 278 Seiten
...should think it much more easy and rational, says Lord Bacon, to believe all the fables in the poets, the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame should be without a Creator and Governor. All philosophers agree, that though matter itself is changed... | |
 | James Davies (independent minister of Haverhill.) - 1835 - 148 Seiten
...and if I mistake not, ere he has proceeded far, he will feel with Lord Bacon, that he could sooner believe all the fables in the Legend, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that the universe has no intelligent Author. Or, should books be inaccessible. to him, he may employ his... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 
