 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 - 1904 - 216 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 ; and if they would have 15 it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favor towards God, and nothing else but... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...his 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...to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a He. But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Raphael Meldola - Evolution - 1910 - 48 pages
...LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE EVOLUTION: DARWINIAN AND SPENCERIAN ' For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second causes...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' BACON, Advancement of Learning, Book I. AMONG the great generalizations of the mid- Victorian era —... | |
 | Frank Hill Perrycoste - Christianity - 1913 - 358 pages
...IN PROMOTING PIOUS FRAUDS. " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him? It is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards...the author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." BACON. " out of some mixture of imposture, to tell a lie for God's cause." Ibid. HAVING in the preceding... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - Free thought - 1915 - 556 pages
...is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes," and that any pretence to the contrary " is mere imposture as it were in favour towards God,...to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie";1 his repeated objection to the discussion of Final Causes ;a his attack on Plato and Aristotle... | |
 | Philosophy - 1916 - 406 pages
...LONDON, EDINBURGH, NEW YORK TORONTO AND MELBOURNE EVOLUTION: DARWINIAN AND SPENCERIAN ' For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second causes...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." BACON, Advancement of Learning, Book I. AMONG the great generalizations of the mid- Victorian era —... | |
 | Walter Arensberg - Acrostics - 1922 - 314 pages
...friends ,Will you lye for God, as one man will doe for another, to gratifie him? for certaine it is, that God worketh nothing in Nature, but by second causes, and if they would haue it otherwise beleeued, it is meere imposture, as it were in fauour towardes God ; and nothing... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...his 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... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...his friends: Will you lie/or God, as one man will do for another, to gratify bim7 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... | |
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