 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...omnia regi gubernarique perspeximns, tonnes gentes nationesque superavimus." XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him : for tinone is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.... | |
 | George Clayton (jr.) - 1851 - 270 pages
...poet of Pharos, w^as the first it is said, that enunciated the proverb that "Habit was second nature." It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...as is unworthy of Him, — for the one is unbelief, the other contumely. — LORD BACON. SILENCE ; Figuratively Recommended. Nature has afforded us double... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...perspeximus, omnes gentes, nationesque superavimus." 1 Which (old) for who. XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...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... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - 1851 - 428 pages
...thing to be nattered and persuaded, like a poor, vain, human creature. "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 is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the deity. Plutarch saith well... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...onmia regi, gubernarique perspeximus omnes, gentes nationesque superavimus." XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all than...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...never to have seen Christianity really embodied in the life of its professors. Lord Bacon's remark, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him," may be carried still further — it were better Christianity had no disciples at all than such as serve... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...numine omnia regi, gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes, nationesque superXVII. OF SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than...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... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pages
...circumstances. And the doctrine of the English Puritans, in opposition to this, isfigmentum Angltcanum.\ 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...omnia regi gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes nationesque superavimus." XVII. OF SUPERSTITION. hereof. Nay, farther, in general and in sum, certain...veritas and banitas differ but as the seal and the the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...regi, gubernarique perspeximus, omnes gentes, nationesque superavimus." * XVII.— OF SUPERSTITION. IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, ....opinion as is unworthy of him ; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely,2 and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well... | |
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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 : 
