 | 1858 - 690 pagine
...wings of an angel, flew through the spheres of thought with the gospel of modern science, " 1 would rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind." We know there are difficulties in the belief that God is a spirit, but they are the difficulties... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pagine
...which they warrant. I would therefore, in the fullest sense, adopt the language of Bacon and say, " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...is without a Mind ; and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because His ordinary works convince it" — and I would add, " such works... | |
 | 1861 - 1148 pagine
...reminds us of the saying of one who was not deficient in his recognition of and in his respect for law. " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,-...than that this universal frame is without a mind." Passing over for the present the Chapters on Power, "Wealth, Culture, Behavior, we come to that on... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pagine
...the voluminous and now 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 true that a little philosophy inclined] man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pagine
...314. 323. 327. 330. 343, 344. 345 MISCELLANEOUS - 292. 344 RESULTS OF READING. CHAPTER I. THE DEITY. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than believe that this universal frame is without a mind. 1 None deny that there is a God, but those for... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pagine
...throughout the whole of Europe. We cannot refrain from quoting his noble protest against atheism : — " I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...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... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1844 - 374 pagine
...reflection of one of the profoundest of minds, that of Lord Bacon, in which he said he " could more easily believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud,...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without an intelligent and designing Mind." The existence of an * Psalm xa. almighty and intelligent Being,... | |
 | Marquis Spineto - 1845 - 544 pagine
...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... | |
 | Marquis SPINETO - 1845 - 544 pagine
...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...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 to... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 1845 - 854 pagine
...and perseverance of old Mr. Lee. THE greatest of modern philosophers (Bacon) declares that "he would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without mind." — Stewart. CONTENTS. How to choose a Travelling Companion 81 Bcauchamps, Chap. IV 84 The Beggar'i... | |
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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. 
