 | Bholanauth Chunder - 1869 - 498 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1870
...Bacon has the 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...Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose : 'Surely, I had a great deal rather men should say there was no such man as Plutarch, than that they woidd say... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1918 - 688 σελίδες
...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 - 1919 - 676 σελίδες
...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 - 1920 - 498 σελίδες
...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 - 1920 - 232 σελίδες
...revaluation 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 - 1921 - 228 σελίδες
...seasonable 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... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - 1922 - 516 σελίδες
...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 - 1924 - 556 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Vasudeva Janannath Kirtikar - 1924 - 244 σελίδες
...whose immanence in Evil and Sin it would be highly impious to assert ! " It is better (says Bacon) to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him." Such a God has been secured in the Christian system. The present Christianity, says Professor Pfleiderer3,... | |
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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: 
