 | 1878 - 616 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poeta speak of Saturn;" the gods, he infers, have a similar preference, and hate superstition worse... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 sider
...well to that purpose : Surely, saith he, / had rather a great deal men shruld say there was no such a man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say...his children as soon as they were born; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the con10 tumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children * as soon as they were born," as the poets speak of Saturn ; and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born;' as the poets speak of Saturn : and, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater4 towards men.... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born. Quoted by Lord Bacon in his "Essay of Superstition." .— AD 60-120. This celebrated Stoic said : You... | |
 | 1881 - 578 sider
...great deal men should say, there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say, that of nature. But yet, without praying in aid of alchemists, there is a manifest image of thi speak of Saturn." And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the clanger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born"; as the poets speak of Saturn: 9 and as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 254 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were born ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 222 sider
...great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should say that there was one Plutarch that would eat his children as soon as they were lorn ; as the poets speak of Saturn. And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 sider
...of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose ; ' Surely,' saith he, 'I had rather a great deal men should say there ' was no such man at all as Plutarch,...children as soon as they were born;' as the poets speak of Saturn; aud, as the contumely is greater towards God, so the danger is greater towards men.... | |
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rather a great deal men should say there " was no such man at all as Plutarch, than " that they should say there was one Plutarch, " that would eat his children as soon as they 
