 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 770 pàgines
...digests them need not dread to encounter iron, adamant, fish hooks, and glass bottles. I could sooner believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Koran, than that the doctrines of Calvin have any foundation in truth.— Brownlow's Exposition and... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 pàgines
...can he except Factious is Christianity. Page 75- OfAlhetsm. I had rather believe all the fables and the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a wind : and, therefore, God ne1er wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince... | |
 | 1901 - 518 pàgines
...City, and is to be had for the small sum of $1.00. NOTES. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. Fame is like a river, that heareth np things light and swollen, and and drown things weighty and solid.... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pàgines
...is not irreligious, he is prepared to give to God the things that are God's, but Cssar's to Caesar. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran," he writes in his Essay "Of Atheism", "than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... It is true,... | |
 | Simon Varey - 1990 - 240 pàgines
...been flourishing for some time. In his essay 'Of Atheism' (1613) Francis Bacon said he preferred to believe 'all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...is without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.'60 Later, opponents of Epicureanism... | |
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 pàgines
...philosophy is secular and rationalistic, he makes an eloquent and apparently sincere disclaimer of unbelief. "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. ... A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pàgines
...silence at the stars. WALT WHITMAN (1819-921. US poet. When 1 Heard the Leam'd Astronomer. ATHEISM 1 I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a Mind. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Atheism" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pàgines
...stay for an answer." Or on death: "Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark." Or on atheism: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Consider the opening line of the essay on gardens, in lighter vein but bearing again that touch of... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...DONNE, (c. 1572-1631) British divine, metaphysical poet. "The Progress of the Soul," St. 52. Atheism 1 I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 pàgines
...further living proof of his wisdom and munificence. Francis Bacon expressed the general faith in 1612: 'I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a Mind ... It is true that a little [natural] philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy... | |
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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 it. 
