 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...which almost makes us exclaim with Bacon : " 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;"3 Dr. Mausel asks : " Is matter or mind the truer image of God ?"3 But both matter and mind... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...'Supernatural Religion,' Vol. I. p. 76. « 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 1s contumely.' BACON. p' PBEFACE. AT the request of my Publishers, strengthened by the expressed desire... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...unworthy conceptions of His nature,* and • "Jt 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 : ' I had rather satisfied... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 118
...Professor Tyndall borrows from Lord Bacon : — " 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." We fall back on the old way as truer, more rational, more worthy of God. " Forasmuch as we are the... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 858
...with times. — Nysscn. GOD.— Opinion of It were bettor 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 certaiuly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. — Lord Bacan.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...omnes gentes nationesque superavimus. XVII 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 5 well to that purpose : Surely, saith he,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 484
...Advancement of Learning. 6. 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)... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...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," said he,... | |
 | Walter Mulrea Fisher - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...lo sereis. Elogio del Rebuzno, ANONYMOUS. 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, as the contumely is greater to. wards God, so the danger is greater towards men. Atheism leaves a man... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...Superstition he agreed that Bacon spoke wisely : " 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 here," remarked my visitor, "it is impossible not to look back with wonder on the errors of some among... | |
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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 : 
