 | Ralph Barton Perry - 1918 - 578 sider
...to the view of Francis Bacon, who 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. Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) 7... | |
 | Plutarch - 1918 - 370 sider
...opening words of Bacon's famous Essay : ' 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.' The word — the same which, in its adjective, St. Paul... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - 1920 - 498 sider
...an undue supernaturalism. "It were better," says 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 contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the deity. ' ' Superstition is our inheritance... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 sider
...SUPERSTITION FRANCIS BACOK, Essays (1625). 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,... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 sider
...— Merchant of Venice 287. SUPERSTITIONS 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... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1924 - 556 sider
...cette pensee deja exprime'e par Bacon : ' 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,' et il ajoutait dans une note : ' For my own part, says... | |
 | George Sprau - 1925 - 368 sider
...SUGGESTED STUDIES I. THE ESSAY 1 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... | |
 | Ian Ferguson - 1925 - 234 sider
...hypothesis. " It were better," wrote Bacon in one of his essays, "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." 1 J. Arthur Hill, Spiritualism, its History, Phenomena,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 318 sider
...Superstition he agreed that Bacon spoke wisely : " 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 here," remarked my visitor, " it is impossible not to look back with wonder on the errors of some among... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 sider
...peoples and nations." 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,... | |
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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 : 
