 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...waste of sand with shades and springs. THEY that deny a Cod destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of humane nature : for take an... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...adversities do more bow men's minds to religion. They that deny a God destroy man's nobility : for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...do more bow men's minds to religion. They that. deny a God, destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising human nature ; for, take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...religion. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beast by his body ; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ; for take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 pages
...another case to be treated of. SELECTION. THEY that deny a God destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and, if...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising human nature ; for take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...powers in the humblest soul, and suggest the question, whether all man's weakness and folly may not be owing to mistrust of himself. Let not the Christian...criminals.* Ah ! how much is suggested by these words, * See particularly the account of Capt. Pillsbury's success in the Weathersfield prison, as given in... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...profanum.' * Plato could have said no more They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature. For take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...could have said no more ....... They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man it of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature. For take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...a God destroy man's nohility : fur certainly man is of kin In the beasts by his body ; and if he he not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature. For take an example of a dog, and... | |
 | William John Birch - 1848 - 574 pages
...producer of Atheism. Bacon remarks, ' They that deny a god, destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body : and, if...by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.' We shall often have occasion to remark, in the examination of Shakspere's plays, the tendency he shows... | |
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. 
