 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Psychology - 1851 - 430 pages
...is excused for exclaiming, what would otherwise from him be ridiculous and inconsistent, that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind," or an affair of chance ; which would be nonsense, and clearly impossible. But in his Essay on Superstition,... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Naturalism - 1851 - 416 pages
...is excused for exclaiming, what would otherwise from him be ridiculous and inconsistent, that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind," or an affair of chance ; which would be nonsense, and clearly impossible. But in his Essay on Superstition,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...The old cry of irreligion, nay even of atheism was raised against the man who had said : " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind ' . " But Bacon had to encounter the prejudices even of the learned. Cuffe, the Earl of Essex's secretary,... | |
 | David Thomas - 458 pages
...sentiments of which we are conscious, which, on account of their ever-acting forces, coeval with * " I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince it. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth men to atheism, but depth in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...magnify the Legend : a book sure of little credit with him, when he thus began one of his essays, « I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' " I have a copy of this edition. A letter of the Lord Bacon's, in French, to the Marquess Fiat, relating... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1852 - 606 pages
...conclusions upon the real and settled faith of Lord Bacon. Bacon perhaps was sincere, when he said, 4I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...than that this universal frame is without a mind.' But to many parts of the paradoxes we may apply his remark upon the fool, who said in his heart, but... | |
 | Baptists - 1852 - 1080 pages
...was shrewdly suspected of favouring atheism, who had eloquently published to the ;world, " I would rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the...than that this universal frame is without a mind. 37 We should have supposed that any kind of tendency to irreligion Vould have been the very last thing... | |
 | Thomas Roderick Dew - History - 1853 - 674 pages
...and protect revolting absurdity ; and in view, no doubt, of this fact, Lord Bacon exclaimed that he " had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a rnind ;" (p. 60.) that is, that there is nothing, however absurd, springing out of religion, to which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...correspondence with the other great men in the state; or else the remedy is worse than the disease. XVI. OF ATHEISM. I had rather believe all the fables in...convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. ft is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 pages
...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 inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy hringeth... | |
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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. 
