 | Timothy A. Robinson - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 98
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...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... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 136
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 257
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...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. 
