 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 sider
...SUPERSTITION.1 IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy2 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)... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 560 sider
...Bacon ? (Essays, 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,... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 540 sider
...Bacon? (Essays, 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,... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 sider
...nationesque superavimus." 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 Anderson Scott - 1867 - 444 sider
...palace in the skies." APPENDIX. APPENDIX. " It is 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." — Lord Bacon. " Surely I had rather a groat deal men should say, there was no such man at all as... | |
 | 1868 - 348 sider
...obedient, JME " 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 784 sider
...appointed. ESSAY XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. TT 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,... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 sider
...worthy ideas of God. " Tt were better," says Lord Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him, for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity." (No. CLV.) EVIL.... | |
 | 1870
...following just observations on this subject : " It is botter to have no opinion of (rod 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, I had a great... | |
 | Philip Bolton - 1870 - 1098 sider
...— to use Bacon's own words again (on superstition) — "to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely, and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Diet}'." Plutarch saith... | |
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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 : 
