 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 1098
...— 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 : 
