 For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes; and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is mere imposture, as it were in favour towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the unclean sacrifice...  Locke's Conduct of the Understanding - Page 120by John Locke - 1881 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1878 - 702 pages
...immediate action of God. Cp. Advancement of Learning, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. iii. p. 267): 'For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the author of truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie.' In the corresponding passage of the De Augmentis, bk. i. (E. and S., vol. ip 436), he speaks rather... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...his friends : " Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? " For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second...towards God; and nothing else but to offer to the 6 Ventosity is windincss: here it has the sense of blown tip with pride or conceit. • Author of truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...cause of the thunder, of which God is the First Cause. This is illustrated by Worhs, iii. 267, 'Certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes. . . But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | Medicine - 1882 - 810 pages
...comfort many minds to remember what Bacon says in the " Advancement of Learning": — " For certain it ia that God worketh nothing in nature but by second causes;...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." Babbage (Ninth Bridgwater Treatise, 1837, page ?'2) says: — "All analogy lead* us to infer, and new... | |
 | St. George William J. Stock - Immortality - 1882 - 262 pages
...eristical defence of a thesis ? Or, who would expose himself to Bacon's withering question — "Will ye offer to the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie ?" Mr. Gillespie is aware that in talking of space being in time and time in space, he is only speaking... | |
 | Natural history - 1883 - 446 pages
...only with secondary causes. I cannot do hotter than conclude in the words of Bacon:—" For certain it is that God worketh nothing in Nature but by second...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie." 26 36 ' Advancement of Learning,' Book I. V. IN MEMOKIAM : SIR ANTONIO BRADY, JP, FGS, &c. 1 ON December... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...his friends : 4 "Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ?" For certain it is, that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...the Author of Truth the unclean sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...of his friends : Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him f For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...author of truth the unclean , : sacrifice of a lie. But further, it is an assured truth, and ' a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - Evolution - 1885 - 290 pages
...friends : — ' Will you lie for God, as one Man will do for another, to gratify him?' For certain it is that GOD worketh nothing in nature but by second...and if they would have it otherwise believed, it is a mere imposture, as it were in favour towards GOD; and nothing else but to offer to the author of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...of his friends, Will you lie for God, as one man will do for another, to gratify him ? For certain it is that God worketh nothing in nature but by second...nothing else but to offer to the author of truth the uncle.-vn sacrifice of a lie. But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that... | |
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