 | Francis Bacon, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton - 1907 - 248 sider
...superavimus. * ESSAY XVII.— OF SUPERSTITION IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : Surely (saith he)... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 sider
...hope or their foreboding.— George Eliot. It were better to have no opinion of Qod at all than such ghten to nil eternity ; that she * The mind is never rig and the other is contumely. — Superstition ie the reproach of the deity. Л peasant can no more help... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 sider
...hop'e or their foreboding.— George Eliot. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such d, I would guarantee the well-being of the church and stat and the other is contumely. — Superstition ia the reproach of the deity. Л peasant can no more help... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 sider
...nations and peoples]. XVII OF SUPERSTITION IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) I... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 384 sider
...In discussing "Superstition," he said : "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. For the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. . . . And as the contumely is greater towards God, so the... | |
 | Robert Loyalty Cru - 1913 - 524 sider
...Bacon (Essays, XVII, "On Superstition"): " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely ; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. . . . Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural... | |
 | Robert Loyalty Cru - 1913 - 522 sider
...Bacon (Essays, XVII, "On Superstition"): " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. . . . Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural... | |
 | Stanley V. Makower, Basil H. Blackwell - 1913 - 614 sider
...enough of these toys. II. OF SUPERSTITION IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : Surely, saith he,... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1913 - 288 sider
...Lord Bacon says about this : " It were better," he says, " to have no opinion at all of God than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." He then goes on to illustrate : " Plutarch said well, ' I would rather a great deal men... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 sider
...slaverv in Judea." '' It were better," says Francis Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all than " such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is " contumely."— E. CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST. 323 standard of Rome, revered the cross which glittered at the head of... | |
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It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : 
