 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy erations of men : it being foretold, that when Christ...earth." II. OF DEATH. Men fear death, as children farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | Charles Benjamin Tayler - 1839 - 210 pages
...colled. '' But depth in philosophy," he adds, " brings them back to religion, for while the mind looks on second causes, scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but, when it beholds them linked together, it must needs seek for a Divine cause. — But then, struck as it were... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | London city mission - Christian socialism - 1840 - 620 pages
...mind. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For while...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther: but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | John Evans, James Hews Bransby - Atheism - 1841 - 398 pages
...Essays, remarks, that " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | John Hayward - Christian biography - 1842 - 448 pages
...Bacon remarks, that " A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for, while...of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederated and linked together,... | |
 | George Ramsay - Ethics - 1843 - 574 pages
...all,14 14 It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to Religion ; for while...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. Bacon's Essays, " Of Atheism." so the use of proximate rules of morality often prevents men from looking... | |
 | Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...little philosophy," says Lord Bacon, " inclineth men's minds to atheism, but a depth in it brings them about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." [Abridged from BASILEY'S Glory of the Heaven*.] SOME good we can all do ; and if we do all that is... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. While the mind of man looketh at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." The chief specimen which we possess of Bacon's talents as a historian is to be found in his " History... | |
 | Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...ADAPTATION. '• IT is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
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It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ;... 
