 | Louis Viardot - 1869 - 98 pages
...adore? Once more, it is I who am pious, when, instead of accusing * " It were better," says Bacon, " to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. Plutarch saith well to that purpose. ' Surely,' saith he, ' I had rather a great deal men should say... | |
 | Bholanauth Chunder - Bengal (India) - 1869 - 498 pages
...who raised the earth on his tusks from the bottom of the ocean. ' It were better to have no notion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him'—than blaspheming him as a fish, a pig, and a tortoise. In Allahabad they show the sacred asrama... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1918 - 688 pages
...the earth, of whom the stock never faileth. For in sooth it is right naught. And I had rather a good deal men should say there was no such man at all as Francis Bacon, than they should say there was one Bacon who writ " Bomeo and Juliet " and " A Midsummer... | |
 | Samuel Dill - Rome - 1919 - 676 pages
...KaTafavyovtriv tvi rote 0<oi/t, KoXa«rfoi>ffi xal XoiSopoCo-if. Of. Bacon's £tsays, Of Superstition, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an * Ib. c. 4, a-nrivTovan rf favdrt? opinion as is unworthy of Him." • deavdrwr. 4 Gr&rd, p. 269. 1... | |
 | University of California, Berkeley - Education - 1920 - 498 pages
...of mysticism and the unnecessary demands of an undue supernaturalism. "It were better," says Bacon, "to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion...unworthy of him, for the one is unbelief, the other contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the deity. ' ' Superstition is our inheritance... | |
 | Hugh Black - World War, 1914-1918 - 1920 - 232 pages
...has to cover the whole ground of religion from the doctrine of God itself ; for as Bacon said, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him." It must deal also with the organization of religion, and ask such a question as this, whether we can... | |
 | Edmund Kemper Broadus - Books and reading - 1921 - 228 pages
...use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy. OF SUPERSTITION FRANCIS BACOK, Essays (1625). IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than...Plutarch saith well to that purpose ; Surely, saith he, / had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should... | |
 | Ralph Barton Perry - National characteristics - 1922 - 578 pages
...all things must be explained, I feel strongly attracted to the view of Francis Bacon, who said: "It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...Plutarch saith well to that purpose: Surely (saith he) / had rather a great deal men should say there was no such man at all as Plutarch, than that they should... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 pages
...your life altogether. Lord Bacon said, long ago: "It were better to have no opinion at all of God, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him. For the one may be unbelief, but the other is contumely." That is unanswerable. I can never be thankful enough... | |
 | John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - Languages, Modern - 1924 - 556 pages
...Shaftesbury dans son Letter concerning Enthusiasm d£ veloppait cette pensee deja exprime'e par Bacon : ' It were better to have no opinion of God at all than...certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity,' et il ajoutait dans une note : ' For my own part, says honest Plutarch, I had rather men should say... | |
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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: 
