 | David Simpson - 1803 - 446 pàgines
...always been incapable of such conduct. What Lord BACON* saith of Atheism is equally true of Deism : " A " little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism,...philosophy, bringeth men's minds about to " Religion." Our great moral Poet ', too, will teach us the same lesson : " A lirle learning is a dangerous thing... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 478 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 344 pàgines
...remedy for insanity. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, justly remarks, that "A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth...men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of maa looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther : but when it beholdeth... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pàgines
...the scriptures, by his frequent allusions to them, and citations from them. His noted axiom was, " That a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism...philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ;" and he placed theology at the head of all learning, at the highest perfection and attainment of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pàgines
...conclusions. Lord Bacon, who had a marvellous power of seeing through and round a subject, once said : "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth man's mind to religion." Perhaps nothing sounder or truer was ever said, and it certainly seems a severe... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...see them, except they be very great. 57. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. 58. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 69. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...see them, except they be very great. 57. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. 58. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 59. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pàgines
...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...mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth mens minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pàgines
...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince...mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men'* minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pàgines
...see them, except they be very great. 21. Without good-nature, man is but a better kind of vermin. 22. God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. 23. The great atheists indeed are hypocrites, who are always handling holy things, but without feeling... | |
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion... 
