 | Joshua Scodel - 2002 - 388 Seiten
...system traditionally condemned for being atheistic — as closer to true religion: I had rather beleeve all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince... | |
 | Timothy A. Robinson - 2002 - 452 Seiten
...of a benevolent and intelligent Designer. Bacon expressed this belief forcibly: T had rather beleave all the Fables in the Legend and the Talmud and the...Alcoran than that this Universal Frame is without a Minde.' So, in some moods, does the universe strike us. But sometimes, when we are in other moods,... | |
 | R. Glenn Wooden, Timothy R. Ashley, Robert S. Wilson - 2003 - 346 Seiten
...contrary, at the beginning of his celebrated essay "Of Atheism" he famously declared: I had rather beleeve all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And 15See C. Leslie, The Second Part of the Wolf... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 2005 - 98 Seiten
...in the whole universe no proof of design can be discovered? I fully accept Lord Bacon's declaration: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind." 10 12. My purpose thus far has been to give very briefly the reasons for affirming that I find a necessity... | |
 | H. J. Jackson - 2008 - 384 Seiten
...Bacon's Essays (1798). By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. 162 OF ATHEISM. I HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran than that this univerfal frame is without a mind : and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheifm,... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - 2005 - 454 Seiten
...relevant to these observations. "I had rather believe (says that extraordinary man) all the fables of the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism: but depth in philosophy bringeth... | |
 | 136 Seiten
...your life has illustrated it. John Keats 1795-1821 Letter to George and Georgiana Keats May 1819 21. I had rather believe all the fables in the legend,...than that this universal frame is without a mind. Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Essays of Atheism 22. Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones,... | |
 | Jane Poyner - 2006 - 257 Seiten
...existence of a God, for, as he said in "Of Atheism": "I had rather believe all the fables in the legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind." 8. Izaak Walton referred to "the great secretary of Nature and all learning, Sir Francis Bacon" (The... | |
 | Henry Ansgar Kelly - 2006 - 309 Seiten
...once the Reformers turned against Saints in general. Francis Bacon in his essay "On Atheism" says, "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Alcoran [Koran] than that this Universal Frame is without a Mind." Many of the stories recounted here... | |
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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. 
