 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...great philosopher informs us in Essay xvii. " I had rather believe all the follies in the Legends, the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." The remarks of Fabricius upon Plutarch are very judicious : Sane atheismum quemlibet in se superstitione... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...the voluminous and no\y neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the same argument " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ! It is trae that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...and the heart.* And it was in this manner, I apprehend, that Lord Bacon felt, when he said that He " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Or, in other words, that there was no proposition, how absurd soever, to which he could not more easily... | |
 | Marquis Spineto - Egypt - 1829 - 558 pages
...man. When the greatest of modern philosophers (Lord Bacon, in his Essays) declares, that ' he would rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ;' he has expressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1829 - 620 pages
...reflections to a much greater length ; but our limits forbid it. " I had rather believe," says Lord Bacon, " all the fables in the legend and the Talmud and the...that this universal frame is without a Mind." And I shall venture to add, that it were better to believe all that the Pope has decreed, and Mahomet pretended,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind;"f he has ex-* pressed the same feeling, which, in all ages and nations, has led good men, unaccustomed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...foundation in the nature of man. When the greatest of modern philosophers declares, that " he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind;"f he has ex* Select Discourses by JOHN SMITH, p. 119. Cambridge, 1673. t Lord BACON in his Essays.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...the voluminous and now neglected erudition displayed by Cudworth in defence of the name argument. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this univer^il frame is without a mind! It is true that a little philoso' inclined) mini's ininil to .itii'... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...and the heart.* And it was in this manner, I apprehend, that Lord Bacon felt, when he said that He " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Aleoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." Or, in other words, that there was no proposition,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 620 pages
...tam fera, nemo omnium tam sit immanis, eujus mentem BOD imbuerit deorum opinio. Cic. Tusc. i. 20. " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame Is without a mind." Lord Bacon, Essay 16. " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism : but depth io 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. 
