 For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice...  Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development - Page 239by Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 390 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1873 - 438 pages
...friends : Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes:...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...longer be accepted as true ; ' for,' as Bacon says in his Advancement of Learning, ' certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In its lessons we should encourage the child to ask for explanations and to use its reasoning faculties.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...to gratify him f For certain it is that God V worketh nothing in nature but by second causes: and /N if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, tha(£ji little or superficial... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 470 pages
...Got/, as one man trill do for another, to gratify Him 7 For certain it is that God worketh nothing iu nature but by second causes ; and if they would have...imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing elso but to offer to the Author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? " For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Science - 1878 - 686 pages
...action of God. Cp. Advancement of Learning, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. iii. p. 267): 'For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. ip 436), he speaks rather... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1878 - 678 pages
...action of God. Cp. Advancement of Learning, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. iii. p. 267): Tor certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes;...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. ip 436), he speaks rather... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1881 - 182 pages
...friends: Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? For cei tain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' SECTION XV. Page 39. And\tf\. I have ventured to attempt to reconstruct this and the next sentence.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? " For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second causes...towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the 6 Ventosity is windincss: here it has the sense of blown tip with pride or conceit. • Author of truth... | |
 | Medicine - 1882 - 810 pages
...comfort many minds to remember what Bacon says in the " Advancement of Learning": — " For certain it ia that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes;...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." Babbage (Ninth Bridgwater Treatise, 1837, page ?'2) says: — "All analogy lead* us to infer, and new... | |
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