 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - Presbyterianism - 1871 - 690 pages
...be commended to the busy investigators of nature in our age : "A little philosophy inclineth a man to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's...sometimes rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Mind and body - 1871 - 180 pages
...well-known and often-quoted passage, has remarked, that " a little philosophy inclineth men's minds to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...revised and augmented till 1625. I had rather helieve all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is...sometimes rest in them and go no farther; but, when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - Mind and body - 1872 - 180 pages
...well-known and often-quoted passage, has remarked, that "a little philosophy inclineth men's minds to Atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...the traditions and comments of the Jewish Rabbins. 5 Alcoran] The Koran, or Mohammedan Scriptures. works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...that this universal frame is without a mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince 1 atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It...sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity;... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...found, &c. Is content to rest in secondary causes. "It is true that a little philosophy inclineth men's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | John Murdoch - 1875 - 366 pages
...fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind : and therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince...sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and Deity.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...without a mind. And therefore God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordis nary works convince it. It is true that a little philosophy...scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no 10 farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs... | |
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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, but,... 
