 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 482 pages
...longer one man, or one * Bacon, however, in his essay on Superstition, says justly, " It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him." The whole essay well deserves attention in these times. principle, directs its steps, but where the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...? 9. Tell a lie and find a troth. Abeunt studia in mores. Fortune is like the market. 10. ' Better have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him.' — How does your author make out this ? 11. ' If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 550 pages
...consequence, a conception of that Being 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... | |
 | Robert Loyalty Cru - Comparative literature - 1913 - 524 pages
...English philosophy, being an echo of Francis Bacon (Essays, XVII, "On 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. . . . Atheism... | |
 | William Stephen Rainsford - Apologetics - 1913 - 288 pages
...recall what Lord Bacon says about this: " It were better," he says, " to have no opinion at all of God than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other contumely." He then goes on to illustrate: " Plutarch said well, 'I would rather... | |
 | Law - 1907 - 474 pages
...(goodness) man is a busy, mischievous, wretched being, no better than a kind of vermin." "It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is 'unworthy of Him ; for one is unbelief, the other is contumely." "Cunning is a sinister or crooked wisdom." "Men fear death... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1915 - 672 pages
...themselves as instruments of destiny, of God, should have considered Bacon's statement that ' it were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him'; they should have remembered that God is the God not of one, but of all nations, and the God of mercy.... | |
 | English literature - 1915 - 666 pages
...themselves as instruments of destiny, of God, should have considered Bacon's statement that ' it were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him ' ; they should have remembered that God is the God not of one, but of all nations, and the God of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...proceeded on good grounds when he authorized slaverv in Judea." '' It were better," says Francis Bacon, " 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."— E. CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST. 323 standard of Rome, revered... | |
 | Plutarch - 1918 - 370 pages
...Treatise on Superstition is well given in the opening words of Bacon's famous Essay : ' 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.' The word... | |
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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 : 
